Paris-Saclay Medical School

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]

Paris-Saclay Medical School
Faculté de médecine de l'université Paris-Saclay
Kremlin-Bicêtre - travaux devant l'hôpital de Bicêtre
TypePublic
Established1968 (1968)
Parent institution
Paris-Saclay University
DeanDidier Samuel
Academic staff
303
Students4,800
Location
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre
,
Île-de-France
,
France

42.335743°N 71.105138°W / 42.335743; -71.105138
Websitewww.medecine.universite-paris-saclay.fr

History

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
  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.
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