Teaching Hospital
- Southampton General Hospital is a teaching hospital associated with the University of Southampton
- The hospital is home to not only the medical students but also PhD students and research academics and clinicians from both the School of Medicine and the School of Biological Sciences. Originally based in the South Academic Block this has been expanded to include several other buildings including the Somers Building (opened in 2008).
- There are 6 different departments of research at Southampton General Hospital:
- III (Infection, Inflammation and Immunity) - renamed from IIR (Infection, Inflammation and Repair) in 2009
- Cancer Sciences
- Clinical Neurosciences
- DoHAD (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease) - renamed from Foetal Origins of Disease
- Human Genetics
- Community Clinical Sciences
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