The School of Medicine began humbly in 1883 with two students and two professors. Today it’s part of a vast new campus with state of the art research facilities. The school was founded in Boulder and moved in 1924 to Colorado Boulevard and Ninth Avenue in Denver. In 2008, the school transformed itself again with a move to the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
The medical school now is part of a bioscience center that also includes schools of dental medicine, pharmacy, public health and nursing. The campus features a depression center, three research towers, the University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital Colorado. A new Veteran’s Hospital serving a million vets in the Rocky Mountain region will opened in 2018. The Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute tries to quickly apply laboratory breakthroughs to people’s lives.
