For more than a century, Winthrop-University Hospital’s culture has been shaped by an ever-deepening commitment to integrating the highest quality patient care services with dynamic medical education programs and rigorous research initiatives.

Underscoring this mission, the Board of Directors, clinical faculty and administration have moved the Hospital into a transformative era, exemplified by the development of a visionary and robust biomedical Research Institute with newly recruited basic and clinical scientists who complement the work of current investigators.

The collaborative environment nurtures creative, independent thinking, the opportunity to share insights and ideas, and extraordinary teamwork. Multidisciplinary PhD scientists and physician investigators are involved in vigorous basic, clinical, translational and health outcomes studies. These include a major commitment that focuses not only on the causes and consequences of diabetes, but also on the disease’s many complex complications that touch a large pool of patients in virtually every medical specialty.

Winthrop investigators are also addressing other important public health issues, including pregnancy and premature births; improving treatment of cancer; osteoporosis; diabetes-related vascular damage; autoimmune diseases; neurological disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; the causes and consequences of obesity; and other debilitating chronic diseases.