University of Pierre and Marie Curie

University of Pierre and Marie Curie or Université Paris 6 (UPMC) - public higher education institution in France.

University of Pierre and Marie Curie - Description

Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC) is one of the largest universities teaching science and medicine in France, and indeed in Europe, with 4000 researchers and teaching academics/researchers, 180 laboratories, and some 30 000 students including 8000 in postgraduate studies. UPMC is based in the Latin Quarter in Paris, with most facilities on a campus of 500 000m². UPMC also has branches in regions outside Paris : 3 ocean logical observatories, at Roscoff (Atlantic Ocean), Banyuls and Villefranche-sur-Mer (Mediterranean Sea). Medicine : 2 medical teaching and research units in Paris teaching hospitals [CHUs]: Saint-Antoine and Pitié-Salpêtrière. Partnerships with a number of hospitals and health care centers. The different campuses are part of a complete renovation program. Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), a leading French university of science and medicine,is the principal heir of the faculty of sciences and one of the heirs of the faculty of medicine in Paris. UPMC’s faculties—chemistry; engineering; mathematics (including the Institute of Statistics); medicine; physics; life and Earth science, the environment and biodiversity—offer bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs. UPMC also includes the Paris Astrophysics Institute, the Henri Poincaré Institute, and three marine stations on the coasts of France. As France’s largest scientific and medical complex, UPMC researchers study the most important issues of sustainable development: health, climate change, water, biodiversity, energy, and communications. It has earned recognition not just for its contribution to fundamental science but also for its extremely targeted research, as demonstrated by the many awards regularly won by UPMC researchers.