This increasing scientific focus is supported by the Faculty of Medicine and is reflected in the research centers and joint projects at national and European level: The next generation of biomedical researchers is trained in the structured training program 'UKE Academy of Biomedical and Health Sciences', consisting of the following graduate schools: The first parts of the hospital were built between 1884 and 1889.

From 1913 until 1926, Fritz Schumacher built a general purpose building, today called Fritz-Schumacher-Haus, among others for the pathological anatomy with a dissecting room.

In 2008 the hospital participated in the Tag des offenen Denkmals, a Germany-wide annual event sponsored by the Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, that opens cultural heritage sites to the public—showing the Fritz-Schumacher-Haus and the operating theatre in a bunker from World War II.

[2] In 2011, the hospital achieved Stage 7 of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Analytics Europe's Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.

This was awarded for achieving a paperless medical record environment coupled with significant computerised analysis of clinical data.