Pierre And Marie Curie University
Coordinates: 48°50′50″N 2°21′23″E / 48.84722°N 2.35639°E / 48.84722; 2.35639
| Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University (University of Paris VI) | |
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| Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Université Paris VI) | |
| Established | 1 January 1971 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Jean Chambaz |
| Admin. staff | 10,640 |
| Students | 32,000 |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Campus | Paris Ivry-sur-Seine Orsay Saint-Cyr-l'École Roscoff Banyuls-sur-Mer Villefranche-sur-Mer |
| Nickname | Paris 6 University |
| Affiliations | Sorbonne University, LERU, EUA |
| Website | www.upmc.fr |
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The Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University (French: Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie; abbreviated as "UPMC"), also known as "Paris VI", is a university located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.
It was established in 1971 following the division of the University of Paris, and is a principal heir to its Faculty of Sciences.
UPMC is the largest scientific and medical complex in France, active in many fields of research with scope and achievements at the highest level, as demonstrated by the many awards regularly won by UPMC researchers, and the many international partnerships it maintains across all five continents. Several university rankings have regularly put UPMC at the 1st place in France, and it has been ranked as one of the top universities in the world. The ARWU has ranked UPMC as the second best university in France and 42nd in the world.
It has more than 125 laboratories, most of them in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Some of its most notable institutes and laboratories include the Institut Henri Poincaré, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu (shared with University Paris-Diderot) and the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (shared with École Normale Supérieure).
The University's Faculty of Medecine "Pierre and Marie Curie" is located in the teaching hospitals Pitié-Salpêtrière and Saint-Antoine (the latter itself being the successor to Saint-Antoine-des-Champs Abbey).
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