Welcome to the Department of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. For over a century, Washington University's Department of Medicine has maintained a proud tradition of excellence. Its three-part mission of Research, Teaching, and Patient Care has formed an important core which ultimately brings the latest in medical technology and doctors of the highest standard to the patients in our hospitals and clinics.

The Department of Medicine has a long and proud history of research and discovery in the basic, clinical and translational sciences.   The research not only pursues the development of better drugs to treat diseases, but also delves into the DNA of these diseases and develops the means to attack them on a genetic level. Through our ICTS programs and the Washington University community, we are consistently bridging medicine from the bench to the bedside, and clinical research evaluations of new drugs and devices.