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The Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center is a center of learning and research and is the foundation for patient care in West Virginia.
The mission of the Health Sciences Center is to improve the health of West Virginians through the education of health professionals, through basic/clinical scientific research and research in rural health care delivery, through the provision of continuing professional education, and through participation in the provision of direct and supportive health care.
The campus includes teaching, healthcare, and research facilities, and is home to WVU's School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Pharmacy, and the School of Nursing. Students from West Virginia and around the world come to prepare for a career in the healthcare field by studying as well as working with expert doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and researchers. Our students learn to provide patients with treatments by using state-of-the-art technologies - often from the experts who helped develop them.
WVU's healthcare facilities serve tens of thousands of patients each year - mostly from West Virginia, but increasingly from around the region and the world.
They include WVU Hospitals, the Physicians Office Center, The Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, The WVU Eye Institute and others.
The research facilities at the Health Sciences Campus also continue to expand. New laboratories are under construction at the University's Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and across the campus.
WVU's health sciences research plan is to develop strong research capabilities in a number of focused areas of health and biosciences, including neurosciences, cancer and heart disease.
When completed, the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute will be the world’s first independent research center devoted to the study of human memory.
The Health Sciences Center is also proud of its advances in other areas such as the tissue bank, proteomics lab and bioinformatics facilities: The tissue bank is a repository for samples of human tissue – both healthy and diseased. The proteomics lab can isolate and identify some of the 1.5 million proteins produced in human cells, many of which are “markers” for specific diseases. And the bioinformatics facility can assist in the application of computer and statistical tools the large sets of data often developed in the course of biological research.
