Member Institutions

GUMC is comprised of the School of Medicine (founded in 1849), the School of Nursing & Health Studies (founded in 1903), and the Lombardi Cancer Center (founded in 1970), with graduate programs in biochemistry, cell biology, pharmacology, physiology, tumor biology, and neuroscience. Clinical care is provided at MeStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH) through a partnership with MedStar Health, which has resulted in the formation of one of the largest regional healthcare networks in the United States. GUMC has 1,640 full-time and 1,572 voluntary (clinician and adjunct) faculty members in 8 basic science and 19 clinical departments and the Lombardi Cancer Center. The research community at Georgetown comprises over 400 principal investigators, occupying laboratory space both on campus and in leased locations in Washington and Maryland. In 2024, GUMC researchers were awarded over $176 million in extramural funding, with the majority (60%) deriving from the NIH and other Federal agencies. Considerable research activity occurs within the clinical environment, with over 400 active clinical trials, a large proportion of which are funded through the National Institute of Health.

The GUMC School of Nursing and Health Studies (NHS) is the second oldest school at GUMC and has a long tradition of shaping the future of nursing and health professions for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students. In July 1, 2022, NHS was divided into two new schools: the School of Nursing and the School of Health, which unlocks new potentials to achieve GUMC ambitions in each of these disciplines. The Berkley School of Nursing at Georgetown University builds on a 120-year tradition of excellence in nursing education at the professional, advanced practice, and doctoral levels. The on-campus and distance-based, online nursing programs emphasize education and research that are grounded in a social justice framework. The NHS  commitment to nursing is infused with the Jesuit values of caring for the whole person — cura personalis — and serving the common good.

The newly established GUMC School of Health provides a home for scholars and students to work collaboratively across disciplines and across the university to address human health and wellbeing from various perspectives — science, health, medicine, policy, law, economics and the humanities — to achieve a deeper understanding of the interconnected threads through the most challenging issues of our time, and to find solutions to these issues. The school reflects the ongoing, urgent need to focus our collective efforts on applied health research and on creating a more equitable, evidence-driven and values-based health care system that can withstand the enormous challenges facing the United States. It is this interdisciplinary spirit of discovery that will best support the needed evolution in health and health care.

The Georgetown Center for Clinical Bioethics (CCB) was established in 1991 as a center of excellence at GU, complementing the activities in ethics of the other divisions and departments of GUMC. The CCB functions in concert with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Department of Philosophy on the main campus, as well as with faculty at the Law Center. The faculty of the CCB has primary appointments in many different departments, including Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Nursing and Oncology. They teach, participate in patient care, and conduct research in the philosophy of medicine, end-of-life issues, beginning-of-life concerns, genetics, and organizational ethics.

Graduate degree programs are offered by the Departments of Anatomy, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Human Genetics, Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Physiology and Biophysics. MD/PhD and MD/MBA Programs are also available.

The principal teaching hospital for the College of Medicine is Howard University Hospital, a 500-bed facility completed in 1975 that houses the General Clinical Research Center. Howard University Hospital has 243 trainees in residency programs and 27 in fellowship programs. Each of these 270 trainees is encouraged, and many are required, to conduct clinical research during their educational program. HU also houses a College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Health Sciences and a College of Dentistry (HUCD). The School of Pharmacy has entry-level and post-Baccalaureate programs leading to a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD). The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers graduate preparation leading to a PhD, with specializations in Pharmaceutics, Medicinal Chemistry, and Pharmacy Administration. The Department is developing a pharmaco-epidemiological track with support from an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant. 

The Division of Nursing offers the Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, a Family Nurse Practitioner Program at the Master’s and post-Master’s levels. The Office of Nursing Research at Howard University has grown out of the NIH P-20 Yale-Howard Center to Reduce Health Disparities by Self and Family Management (5P20 NR008353). The Division of Allied Health Sciences offers undergraduate programs in Clinical Laboratory Science, Health Management, Dietetics, Physician Assistant, and Radiation Therapy. The graduate programs include Master’s degrees in Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy, and Master’s and PhD programs in Nutritional Sciences.

The HUCD established in 1881, is the fifth oldest dental school in the United States. The College has trained thousands of dental professionals to serve their communities, particularly the underserved. The College of Dentistry offers postgraduate programs in the fields of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry, General Practice Residency and an Advanced Education Program in General Dentistry. Faculty research activity includes studies of dental consequences of sickle cell disease and pathogenesis of head and neck cancer. HUCD has established a relationship with the HU Cancer Center to collaborate in cancer screening, diabetic screening, and tobacco cessation programs.

HU received over $27.5 million in extramural support in 2008, of which approximately $15 million was from NIH. The biomedical centers and programs that house much of this research include the Center for Sickle Cell Disease, the Cancer Center, the National Human Genome Center, the Mood Disorder and PTSD Programs, and the Collaborative Alcohol Research Center.

At MedStar Health, we offer easy access to great health care in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., via our 10 hospitals and more than 300 other care locations. We are home to a team of more than 35,000 physicians, nurses, and many other clinical and non-clinical associates who together support MedStar Health’s patient-first philosophy that combines care, compassion, and clinical excellence with an emphasis on customer service.

As the research arm of the MedStar Health academic healthcare system, the MedStar Health Research Institute provides scientific, administrative, and regulatory support for research across the region’s largest health system. Our contribution to the healing work performed across the region and in the communities we serve is led by our commitment to advance health. Every day, MedStar Health investigators provide patients access to the latest innovative treatments and therapies, while creating solutions to medicine’s biggest problems.

With more than 4,000 patients enrolled in clinical trials and research conducted across more than 40 sites annually, research is embedded into MedStar Health’s operations. The Research Institute’s portfolio includes clinical and investigative work and pilot programs across six networks and core scientific services for clinician-investigators, academics, and researchers. Our goal is to conduct transformational, interdisciplinary, and inclusive research to advance safety, efficiency, and quality for our clinicians and patients. 

Learn more at MedStarHealth.org/Research

During the 1950s and 1960s, ORNL became an international center for the study of nuclear energy and related research in the physical and life sciences. With the creation of DOE in the 1970s, ORNL's mission broadened to include a variety of energy technologies and strategies. Today the laboratory supports the nation with a peacetime science and technology mission that is just as important as, but very different from, its role during the Manhattan Project.

ORNL is home to the world's premier center for high performance supercomputing to enable scientific discovery. ORNL's partnership with GHUCCTS will offer unparalleled opportunity in high speed high volume computing to develop novel translational methodologies in drug discovery and genome-environment transactions.

The VAMC’s staff of 1,700 provides care to veterans residing in the District of Columbia and portions of Virginia and Maryland. The medical center treats over 50,000 veterans and has over 500,000 outpatient visits each year. The Washington DC VAMC is affiliated with HU, GW, and GU. It is also affiliated with many other colleges and universities in such areas as pharmacy, rehabilitation medicine, biomedical engineering, dietetics, social work, nursing and medical center management.

The medical center has a multi-million dollar research program that supports more than 100 investigators and 300 active research projects. Major research in alcoholism, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and spinal cord regeneration is being conducted.