Paris-Saclay Medical School

Training and research unit of the Paris-Saclay University located at the Kremlin-Bicêtre

Paris-Saclay Medical School

Faculté de médecine de l'université Paris-Saclay

Kremlin-Bicêtre - travaux devant l'hôpital de Bicêtre

Type| Public
Established| 1968 (1968)

Parent institution

| Paris-Saclay University
Dean| Didier Samuel

Academic staff

| 303
Students| 4,800
Location|

Le Kremlin-Bicêtre

Île-de-France

France

42°20′09″N 71°06′18″W﻿ / ﻿42.335743°N 71.105138°W﻿ / 42.335743; -71.105138
Website| www.medecine.universite-paris-saclay.fr

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]

## History

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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]

## References

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1. ^ Lucile, Métout (October 24, 2019). "Villejuif : le campus universitaire en sursis à la Redoute des Hautes-Bruyères". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved August 6, 2020.
2. ^ Université Paris-Saclay. "Politique de formation". Faculté de médecine du Kremlin-Bicêtre (in French). Retrieved August 6, 2020.
3. ^ Vivanti, Alexandre J.; Vauloup-Fellous, Christelle; Prevot, Sophie; Zupan, Veronique; Suffee, Cecile; Do Cao, Jeremy; Benachi, Alexandra; De Luca, Daniele (July 14, 2020). "Transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 3572. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17436-6. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 7360599. PMID 32665677.
4. ^ "Covid-19 : un cas de transmission intra-utérine via le placenta publié dans Nature Communication". www.aphp.fr (in French). Retrieved August 6, 2020.

## External links

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* Official website