Created by decree in 1968, the Paris-Saclay Faculty of Medicine saw its walls being built within the hospital grounds of Bicêtre in 1980. It is one of the 7 faculties of medicine in the Paris region.[2]
On July 14, 2020, a study by researchers from the Paris-Saclay Medical School on a case of transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection was published in the British journal Nature.[3] The study concerns the case of a pregnant woman, in the last trimester of pregnancy, admitted to Paris-Saclay University Hospital Antoine-Béclère in March 2020.[4]