Faculté de médecine de l'université Paris-Saclay | |
Type | Public |
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Established | 1968 |
Parent institution | Paris-Saclay University |
Dean | Didier Samuel |
Academic staff | 303 |
Students | 4,800 |
Location | , , 42°20′09″N 71°06′18″W / 42.335743°N 71.105138°W |
Website | www |
Paris-Saclay Medical School, also Faculté de médecine Paris-Saclay in French, is the graduate medical school of Paris-Saclay University and is located in the Bicêtre Medical Area of Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Val-de-Marne, France and founded in 1968. It is the medical school of the first university in France according to its dean.[1]
Created by decree in 1968, the Paris-Saclay Faculty of Medicine saw its walls being built within the hospital grounds of Bicêtre in 1980. It is one of the 7 faculties of medicine in the Paris region.[2]
On July 14, 2020, a study by researchers from the Paris-Saclay Medical School on a case of transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection was published in the British journal Nature.[3] The study concerns the case of a pregnant woman, in the last trimester of pregnancy, admitted to Paris-Saclay University Hospital Antoine-Béclère in March 2020.[4]