On Sept. 12, 1955, the first class at new Albert Einstein College of Medicine began with 3 men and three women medical students and about 75 faculty members.

The total student body now numbers well over 800, including postgraduates attending the Sue Golding Graduate Division of Medical Sciences and the Belfer Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies. Ground was broken for the first building, now known as the Leo Forchheimer Medical Sciences Building, in October, 1953.

To accommodate the expanding research programs of the College of Medicine, the Ullmann Research Center for Health Sciences was completed in 1964.