A Reproductive and Developmental Medicine student

The Medical School

We train world class clinicians and researchers who prolong and improve lives every day.

Undergraduate study

An undergraduate medical lecture
MBChB Medicine 
An oncology student in the lab
Intercalation 

Postgraduate study

A Reproductive and Developmental Medicine student
Postgraduate taught courses 
A PhD student in the lab
PhD study 

Our research

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Research themes

We conduct world-leading research across a range of specialist themes including oncology, reproduction, neuroscience, infection, immunity and medical education.

Our research themes and centres

Nerve cells

Flagship institutes

Our flagship research institutes bring together our key research strengths to turn interdisciplinary and translational research into real-world solutions.

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COVID-19

University of Sheffield Medical School scientists are contributing to the fight against coronavirus, joining a national consortium to map the outbreak

Fighting COVID-19

About us

A medicine undergraduate student
Meet our students 
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Athena SWAN 
The Sheffield Medical School
Social accountability 

News

Genome sequencing
24 March 2020

Sheffield scientists leading the fight against coronavirus join national consortium to map the outbreak

Scientists and clinicians from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have joined a UK consortium to map how COVID-19 (coronavirus) spreads and behaves.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
21 May 2020

Sheffield’s COVID-19 experts to host online Q&A event

The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals to host a live online event on COVID-19 research as part of International Clinical Trials Day.
Child gluing arts and crafts
20 May 2020

Sheffield’s marvellous world of medical research goes digital with online festival

As part of an annual Medical Research Council (MRC) celebration, the University of Sheffield is hosting a Festival of Medical Research online for the first time.
Sheffield's new doctors, Class of 2020
28 April 2020

Medical students graduate early from Sheffield to assist NHS coronavirus effort

Nearly 250 University of Sheffield final year medical students have graduated early as junior doctors to be able to work for the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic.

Our departments

Academic Unit of Medical Education

Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease

Department of Neuroscience

Department of Oncology and Metabolism

Working with industry

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