UC Denver \ Anschutz Medical Campus
Quick Facts
4 Number of affiliated campuses
5 Number of affiliated hospitals
6 Number of health science professional schools
500,000 Number of patient visits/year
15,860 Number of enrolled students (12,726 Denver, 2954 Anschutz)
4,879 Number of faculty members
5 Number of members of the National Academy of Sciences
14 Number of members of the Institute of Medicine
2 Number of HHMI Investigators
6 Rank among 75 US public medical schools for federal research funding
18 Rank among 175 public & private US medical school for
research funding
4 Rank of US 75 public medical schools for NIH funding
11 Rank of 175 public & private US medical schools
$386M Amount of sponsored research dollars
Number of US patents granted in 2010
227 Number of acres of land at Anschutz
3.4M Number of gross square feet of education/patient care/research space at
Anschutz
400+ Number of bioscience companies in Colorado
Firsts
• First to perform the world’s first liver transplant
• First to conduct human cell cloning to study genetics and cancer
• First to develop a classification and numbering system for human chromosomes
• First to identify a genetic factor that converts normal cells into cancer cells
• First to learn that lymphocytes are preprogrammed to respond to antigens, the
foundation of modern immunology
• First to learn how a human cancer gene functions
• First to learn that naturally occurring proteins in the blood prevent the AIDS virus from
reproducing and spreading to healthy cells
• Identifier of the first gene that carries the risk of schizophrenia
• Identifier of key molecular mechanisms in the failing human heart that have led to
successful development of effective therapies
Top Posts (held by faculty members since 2005)
Association of American Medical Colleges
American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society
American Heart Association
American Society of Nephrology
American College of Physicians
American Society of Clinical Oncology
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Care
The Endocrine Society
American Academy of Neurology
Physician Assistant Education Association