The first academic hospital in Italy to receive Joint Commission International’s certification for excellence as an academic hospital is Humanitas Research Hospital, a highly specialized research and university hospital. It houses a cutting-edge translational research center as well as the residency and PhD programs of Humanitas University, a life science institution notable for its real-world simulation-based approach to medical education and its global perspective.

More than 400 enthusiastic researchers, including physician scientists, biologists, physicists, data scientists, and technologists, are housed in 10.000 square meters of high-tech laboratories in two dedicated buildings, just 5 minutes’ walk from the hospital wards and close to Humanitas University teaching facilities. Their shared goal is to advance science to improve patient care. With the ultimate goal of developing new therapies as well as new diagnostic and prognostic techniques, Humanitas research is motivated by unmet clinical needs and makes use of cutting-edge technologies to dissect the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying human pathologies in fields ranging from cardiovascular medicine to neuroscience, from immunology to cancer and microbiology.

Our vision

We believe that understanding mechanisms that underlie normal biological processes is important to understand how the same mechanisms are altered in disease. Improving cures needs understanding these mechanisms.

We are dedicated to integrate basic, translational and clinical research, fostering strong collaborations between clinicians, physician scientists and wet-lab researchers, and partnering with world-renowned universities, research institutions and biotech companies.

We aim for the most advanced instruments and expertise available in fields ranging from genomics to flow cytometry, from microscopy to metabolomics and bio-printing, certain that only frontier technologies will allow us to do the best science.