From founding the first U.S. hospital and medical school more than two centuries ago to pioneering today’s mRNA vaccines and cancer treatments, Penn Medicine has always shown the world what comes next. Today, their 49,000+ team members forge forward, achieving extraordinary levels of collaboration across departments and labs to write the future of medicine.
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation’s top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $580 million awarded in the 2023 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of firsts, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries that have shaped modern medicine, including CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.