The Rockefeller University Hospital In 1910, scientists founded the nation’s first hospital devoted exclusively to experimental medicine. Our Hospital’s only patients are participants in clinical research studies building on basic research findings from the University laboratories. Unburdened by constraints of standard patient care, the hospital is a vital component of Rockefeller’s commitment to accelerating basic research findings on their route from bench to bedside for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease. Some of the conditions currently being studied are: addiction,blood disorders, cancer, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, kidney disease, obesity and psoriasis.