Cayetano Heredia University

Cayetano Heredia University (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, UPCH) is a private, non-profit research university in the San Martín de Porres district of Lima, Peru, created by decree on 22 September 1961 and named after the nineteenth-century Peruvian physician Cayetano Heredia.卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚大学（Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia，简称 UPCH）是秘鲁利马圣马丁德波雷斯区的一所私立非营利研究型大学，1961 年 9 月 22 日依政令创设，以 19 世纪秘鲁医生卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚命名。

It was founded by professors and students who left the medical faculty of the National University of San Marcos after more than 400 academics resigned in a dispute over university government, and it is one of the country's leading centres of biomedical research.该校由一批因大学治理之争离开国立圣马科斯大学医学院的教授与学生创办，此前已有 400 余名教师集体辞职，是秘鲁生物医学研究的重镇之一。

It enrols more than 11,000 students in eight faculties and a postgraduate school, is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and was ranked 531st in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027, one of only a handful of Peruvian universities present in three of the four major global tables.该校在八个学院与一所研究生院培养超过 11,000 名学生，位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名 1001-1200 区间，并在 US News 2026-2027 全球最佳大学排名中列第 531 位，是少数同时进入四大主要全球榜单中三项的秘鲁大学之一。

History

• In the late 1950s the medical faculty of the National University of San Marcos, known as San Fernando, was torn by a dispute over the "student third" in university government, a reform backed by the APRA party.1950 年代后期，国立圣马科斯大学医学院（即圣费尔南多医学院）因大学治理中的「学生三分之一」代表权问题陷入激烈争议，该改革得到美洲人民革命联盟党的支持。
• The dissenting group was led by the psychiatrist Honorio Delgado and by Alberto Hurtado, dean of the San Marcos medical school, who argued that the change would politicise academic appointments.反对一方由精神病学家奥诺里奥·德尔加多与圣马科斯医学院院长阿尔韦托·乌尔塔多领导，他们认为这一变动会使学术任命政治化。
• When their campaign failed, more than 400 faculty members resigned en masse and decided to create a private, non-profit medical school outside the state system.其抗争失败后，400 余名教师集体辞职，并决定在国家体系之外创办一所私立非营利医学院。
• On 22 September 1961 a decree authorised the new institution under the name Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Médicas y Biológicas, the Private Peruvian University of Medical and Biological Sciences.1961 年 9 月 22 日，一项政令批准新机构成立，定名秘鲁医学与生物科学私立大学。
• The founders included students as well as professors, and the new university was constituted as a non-profit entity governed by a board of trustees rather than owned by the state or a private proprietor.创办者中既有教授也有学生，新大学以非营利实体形式设立，由董事会治理，既不属于国家也不属于私人所有者。
• Teaching began in April 1962 in the former building of the Colegio Sagrados Corazones Belén on the Jirón de la Unión, in the historic centre of Lima.教学于 1962 年 4 月在利马历史中心联合街的圣心贝伦学校旧址开始。
• The official inauguration took place on 18 June 1962 in the presence of President Manuel Prado Ugarteche, giving the new school national visibility from its first year.1962 年 6 月 18 日举行正式成立典礼，曼努埃尔·普拉多·乌加特切总统出席，使这所新学校自第一年起便获得全国关注。
• On 24 February 1965 the institution adopted its present name, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, honouring the physician who had reorganised medical teaching in nineteenth-century Peru.1965 年 2 月 24 日，该校改用现名「秘鲁卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚大学」，以纪念这位在 19 世纪重整秘鲁医学教育的医生。
• The Cayetano Heredia National Hospital opened in 1967, giving the university a teaching hospital conceived together with the medical school.卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚国家医院于 1967 年启用，为该校提供了与医学院同步规划的教学医院。
• In 1968 the university moved to its present site in San Martín de Porres, where classrooms, laboratories and the national hospital were brought together on one campus, a site the university has occupied ever since.1968 年，该校迁入圣马丁德波雷斯的现址，教室、实验室与国家医院被整合在同一校园之内，此后一直使用该址。
• Honorio Delgado served as first rector from 1962 to 1967, and Alberto Hurtado, the founding dean, led the university from 1967 to 1969.奥诺里奥·德尔加多自 1962 至 1967 年任首任校长，创校院长阿尔韦托·乌尔塔多于 1967 至 1969 年接任。
• Carlos Monge, rector from 1970 to 1972, belonged to the Peruvian school of high-altitude physiology that described chronic mountain sickness, a field the university later institutionalised.1970 至 1972 年任校长的卡洛斯·蒙赫出自描述慢性高山病的秘鲁高原生理学派，该校后来把这一领域制度化。
• In 1996 the university became a founding member of the Consortium of Universities, together with the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Universidad del Pacífico and the University of Lima.1996 年，该校与秘鲁天主教大学、太平洋大学及利马大学共同成为大学联盟的创始成员。
• Fabiola León-Velarde, a physiologist trained at the university, served as rector from 2008 to 2017 and later presided over the national science council, CONCYTEC, from 2017 to 2020.在该校接受生理学训练的法比奥拉·莱昂-贝拉尔德于 2008 至 2017 年任校长，后于 2017 至 2020 年出任国家科学技术委员会主席。
• In 2016 the National Superintendence of Higher University Education, SUNEDU, licensed the university for ten years, making it the fifth private university licensed and the second to receive a full decade.2016 年，国家高等教育监管署（SUNEDU）向该校颁发为期十年的办学许可，使其成为第五所获许可的私立大学、第二所获得完整十年期的大学。
• In the second half of 2020 the university received an extra batch of 1,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine for the personnel of its phase 3 clinical trial.2020 年下半年，该校为其三期临床试验人员额外获得 1,000 剂国药疫苗。
• In February 2021 it emerged that some of those doses had gone to government officials and university authorities, and rector Luis Varela Pinedo resigned on 18 February.2021 年 2 月，部分疫苗被曝流向政府官员与校方高层，校长路易斯·巴雷拉·皮内多于 2 月 18 日辞职。
• On 19 February 2021 the National Institute of Health suspended the university as a site for new clinical trials after an inspection found breaches of the study protocol and ethical standards.2021 年 2 月 19 日，国家卫生研究所在检查发现违反研究方案与伦理标准后，暂停该校作为新临床试验基地的资格。
• Enrique Castañeda Saldaña became rector in 2021, and in 2022 the SUNEDU biennial report placed the university first in Peru in its historical ranking for 1980-2021 and in academic excellence for 2019-2022.恩里克·卡斯坦耶达·萨尔达尼亚于 2021 年出任校长，2022 年 SUNEDU 双年度报告在 1980 至 2021 年历史排名与 2019 至 2022 年学术卓越两项中均将该校列为秘鲁第一。
• Wilfredo Gonzáles Lozada took office as rector for the 2026-2031 term, inheriting a university that had just been ranked first nationally by the regulator.威尔弗雷多·冈萨莱斯·洛萨达就任 2026 至 2031 年任期校长，接手的是一所刚被监管机构列为全国第一的大学。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in eight faculties, namely Medicine, Science and Philosophy, Stomatology, Psychology, Nursing, Public Health and Health Administration, Veterinary Medicine and Animal Breeding, and Education, which between them cover medicine, dentistry, nursing, psychology, veterinary science, public health, basic science and teacher training.教学由八个学院组织，即医学、科学与哲学、口腔医学、心理学、护理、公共卫生与卫生管理、兽医与动物饲养，以及教育，涵盖医学、牙科、护理、心理学、兽医、公共卫生、基础科学与师资培养。
• A postgraduate school coordinates master's and doctoral programmes, and the university offers more than 20 majors across its faculties.研究生院统筹硕士与博士项目，该校各学院合计开设 20 余个专业。
• It enrols more than 11,000 students, a scale that makes it a mid-sized private university by Peruvian standards and keeps its profile centred on the health sciences.该校在校生超过 11,000 人，按秘鲁标准属中等规模私立大学，其学科结构始终以健康科学为核心。
• It awards bachelor's degrees as well as master's and doctoral degrees in biochemistry, biotechnology, medicine and biology, together with a Master of Health Administration.该校授予学士学位，并在生物化学、生物技术、医学与生物学领域授予硕士与博士学位，另设卫生管理硕士。
• The SUNEDU licence granted in 2016 for ten years certified compliance with basic quality conditions and allowed the university to keep awarding official degrees.2016 年颁发的十年期 SUNEDU 许可确认其符合基本质量条件，并允许学校继续授予官方学位。
• The Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute works on tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, malaria and HIV from laboratories in Lima and from field stations across Peru.亚历山大·冯·洪堡热带医学研究所以利马的实验室与遍布秘鲁的野外站为基地，研究结核病、利什曼病、疟疾与艾滋病毒。
• The institute is known for the Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine, taught jointly with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.该研究所以与伯明翰阿拉巴马大学合办的戈尔加斯临床热带医学课程闻名。
• Tropical medicine field work is carried out in the Amazon at Iquitos and La Merced and in the Andes at Cuzco, where the institute maintains stations for clinical and epidemiological studies.热带医学的野外工作分别在亚马孙地区的伊基托斯与拉梅塞德以及安第斯山区的库斯科展开，研究所在当地设站开展临床与流行病学研究。
• The High Altitude Research Institute studies the physiology of life at altitude and the pathophysiology of acute and chronic mountain sickness.高原研究所研究高海拔生活的生理学以及急性与慢性高山病的病理生理机制。
• Its partners in the United States include Johns Hopkins University, the University of Washington, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.其美国合作伙伴包括约翰斯·霍普金斯大学、华盛顿大学、加州大学圣迭戈分校、加州大学伯克利分校、宾夕法尼亚大学与伯明翰阿拉巴马大学。
• In Europe it collaborates with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and with the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp.在欧洲，该校与伦敦卫生与热带医学院以及安特卫普的利奥波德亲王热带医学研究所合作。
• Since 1996 it has belonged to the Consortium of Universities, a group of four private institutions that share libraries and academic programmes.自 1996 年起，该校加入大学联盟，这一由四所私立院校组成的集团共享图书馆与学术项目。
• The Faculty of Medicine trains its students at the Cayetano Heredia National Hospital and at affiliated services, combining clinical rotations with laboratory work.医学院在卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚国家医院及附属科室培养学生，把临床轮转与实验室工作结合起来。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 17,837 works and 984,237 citations for the university, with medicine, immunology and microbiology among the most cited fields.OpenAlex 收录该校 17,837 篇研究成果与 984,237 次引用，医学、免疫学与微生物学是引用最集中的领域。
• The Faculty of Public Health and Health Administration trains health managers and epidemiologists and offers the Master of Health Administration.公共卫生与卫生管理学院培养卫生管理者与流行病学人才，并开设卫生管理硕士项目。
• The Faculty of Education offers teacher training and educational research, extending the university's reach beyond the health sciences.教育学院提供师资培养与教育研究，使该校的影响超出健康科学领域。
• The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Breeding trains veterinarians with an emphasis on public health and zoonoses, linking animal and human medicine.兽医与动物饲养学院培养兽医，侧重公共卫生与人畜共患病，把动物医学与人类医学联系起来。
• The Faculty of Science and Philosophy provides the basic training in biology, chemistry and mathematics on which the professional faculties depend.科学与哲学学院提供生物学、化学与数学的基础训练，为各专业学院提供支撑。

Campus

• The main campus stands at Avenida Honorio Delgado 430, Urbanización Ingeniería, in the San Martín de Porres district of northern Lima, at roughly 12 degrees south and 77 degrees west.主校区位于利马北部圣马丁德波雷斯区的奥诺里奥·德尔加多大道 430 号工程住宅区，约在南纬 12 度、西经 77 度。
• The campus is urban in character and sits in the northern cone of the metropolitan area, a zone of dense population served by the city's northern transport corridors.校园属城市型，位于大都会区北部，这一人口稠密区域由城市北部交通走廊服务。
• The Cayetano Heredia National Hospital, opened in 1967, stands beside the academic buildings, so that students move between lecture rooms and wards on foot.1967 年启用的卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚国家医院紧邻教学建筑，学生可步行往返教室与病房。
• The university's first seat was the Colegio Sagrados Corazones Belén on the Jirón de la Unión, in the historic centre, before the 1968 move to San Martín de Porres.该校最初的校址是历史中心联合街的圣心贝伦学校，1968 年才迁往圣马丁德波雷斯。
• The Alexander von Humboldt Institute occupies laboratories on the campus and maintains field stations in the Amazon at Iquitos and La Merced and in the Andes at Cuzco.亚历山大·冯·洪堡研究所在校园内设实验室，并在亚马孙地区的伊基托斯与拉梅塞德以及安第斯山区的库斯科设野外站。
• The High Altitude Research Institute works from the campus and from Andean field sites, where researchers study populations living above 4,000 metres.高原研究所以校园及安第斯野外站点为基地，研究人员在那里考察生活在海拔 4,000 米以上的人群。
• The campus brings together classrooms, teaching laboratories, the postgraduate school and the national hospital in a single clinical-academic complex.校园把教室、教学实验室、研究生院与国家医院集中于一个临床与学术综合体之内。
• The avenue bordering the campus is named after Honorio Delgado, the first rector, whose name is also carried by the university's original academic building.环绕校园的大道以首任校长奥诺里奥·德尔加多命名，该校最初的教学楼亦沿用其名。
• The campus lies a few kilometres north of the historic centre and is connected to it by the northern avenues and by the Metropolitano bus corridor that serves Lima Norte.校园位于历史中心以北数公里，经北部大道与贯穿利马北部的都市公交走廊与之相连。

Reputation

• Cayetano Heredia University is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval in the global table.卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚大学位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名 1001-1200 区间，属全球榜单中的并列区间。
• It was also placed in the 1001-1200 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校同时位列 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名 1001-1200 区间。
• It was ranked 531st in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027, the highest position among the three main rankings in which it appears.该校在 US News 2026-2027 全球最佳大学排名中列第 531 位，是其所在三个主要榜单中的最好名次。
• It did not enter the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 main table, which weights Nobel prizes and highly cited researchers heavily.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜的指标体系高度重视诺贝尔奖与高被引学者。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 17,837 works and 984,237 citations, a citation intensity of roughly 55 per work that reflects a concentration in biomedical science.OpenAlex 收录该校 17,837 篇成果与 984,237 次引用，篇均约 55 次引用，反映出其以生物医学为主的产出结构。
• The SUNEDU biennial report of 2022 ranked it first in Peru both in the historical ranking for 1980-2021 and in academic excellence for 2019-2022.2022 年 SUNEDU 双年度报告在 1980 至 2021 年历史排名与 2019 至 2022 年学术卓越两项中均将其列为秘鲁第一。
• It is commonly described, together with the San Fernando faculty of San Marcos, as one of the two leading medical schools in Peru.该校与圣马科斯大学的圣费尔南多医学院常被并称为秘鲁两所顶尖医学院。
• Within Peru it competes with San Marcos and the Pontifical Catholic University for the top places in international tables, and it has led some editions of those rankings.在秘鲁国内，该校与圣马科斯大学及天主教大学争夺国际榜单的首位，并曾在若干版本中位居第一。
• The Alexander von Humboldt Institute's Gorgas Course, taught with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is recognised across Latin America as a specialist training programme in tropical medicine.洪堡研究所与伯明翰阿拉巴马大学合办的戈尔加斯课程，被拉美同行视为热带医学的专门培训项目。
• Its graduates have held the health ministry and research posts across the Peruvian state, a record the university cites when presenting its national standing.该校毕业生历任秘鲁卫生部长与国家级科研职务，校方在说明其全国地位时屡屡举出这一记录。

Student life

• The university motto is Spiritus ubi vult spirat, "the Spirit breathes where it will", taken from the Gospel of John and displayed on the institutional shield.该校校训为「Spiritus ubi vult spirat」，意为「圣神随意吹拂」，出自《约翰福音》，并见于校徽之上。
• The shield is yellow and carries the Rod of Asclepius at its centre, the classical symbol of medicine and healing, flanked by the motto.校徽为黄色盾形，中央为阿斯克勒庇俄斯之杖，即医学与治疗的古典象征，两侧为校训。
• The name honours Cayetano Heredia, the physician who reformed medical teaching at San Marcos in the mid-nineteenth century, and students and alumni call themselves heredianos.校名纪念 19 世纪中叶在圣马科斯大学改革医学教育的卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚，学生与校友自称「埃雷迪亚人」。
• The founding decree is dated 22 September 1961, and the university counts its history from that act rather than from the first classes of April 1962, marking the anniversary each September.创校政令的日期为 1961 年 9 月 22 日，校方以该政令而非 1962 年 4 月的首次授课作为校史起点，并于每年 9 月庆祝校庆。
• In the second semester of 2025 the university welcomed international students from America, Europe and Asia at a ceremony attended by the rector and the academic vice-rector.2025 年第二学期，该校为来自美洲、欧洲与亚洲的国际学生举行迎新典礼，校长与学术副校长出席。
• Clinical training begins early, with students rotating through the Cayetano Heredia National Hospital and affiliated services under faculty supervision.临床训练开始较早，学生在教师督导下于卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚国家医院及附属科室轮转。
• Undergraduates join research groups in the Humboldt and High Altitude institutes, and the Gorgas Course draws postgraduate doctors from across the region.本科生可加入洪堡研究所与高原研究所的研究组，戈尔加斯课程则吸引全区的研究生医生。
• The Gorgas Course and the tropical medicine institute bring visiting physicians to Lima each year, adding an international cohort to campus life.戈尔加斯课程与热带医学研究所每年吸引访问医生来利马，为校园生活增添了国际群体。
• Student life is shaped by the campus's position in Lima Norte, with the national hospital, laboratories and lecture halls within a few minutes' walk of one another.学生生活受校园位于利马北部这一区位塑造，国家医院、实验室与讲堂彼此步行数分钟可达。

Notable people

• Cayetano Heredia (1795-1861), the physician whose name the university bears, reorganised medical teaching at San Marcos and trained a generation of Peruvian doctors.该校所纪念的医生卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚（1795 至 1861 年）重整了圣马科斯大学的医学教育，并培养了整整一代秘鲁医生。
• Honorio Delgado, the psychiatrist who led the break from San Marcos, was the first rector from 1962 to 1967, received the Hipólito Unanue Prize in 1943 and the Palmas Magisteriales in 1965.带领众人脱离圣马科斯大学的精神病学家奥诺里奥·德尔加多自 1962 至 1967 年任首任校长，1943 年获伊波利托·乌纳努埃奖，1965 年获教师棕榈勋章。
• Alberto Hurtado, dean of the San Marcos medical school and co-founder, served as rector from 1967 to 1969 and promoted occupational medicine in Peru.圣马科斯医学院院长、共同创办人阿尔韦托·乌尔塔多于 1967 至 1969 年任校长，并推动了秘鲁的职业医学。
• Carlos Bustamante, who took his bachelor's degree in biology at the university in 1973, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, won the Max Delbrück Prize that year and the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science in 2012.卡洛斯·布斯塔曼特 1973 年在该校获得生物学学士学位，2002 年当选美国国家科学院院士并获马克斯·德尔布吕克奖，2012 年获维尔切克生物医学奖。
• Fabiola León-Velarde, a physiologist and rector from 2008 to 2017, co-authored two works that received Peru's Hipólito Unanue Prize in 1995 and 2004 and presided over CONCYTEC from 2017 to 2020.生理学家法比奥拉·莱昂-贝拉尔德于 2008 至 2017 年任校长，合著的两部著作于 1995 年与 2004 年获秘鲁伊波利托·乌纳努埃奖，并于 2017 至 2020 年主持国家科学技术委员会。
• Patricia García Funegra, an epidemiologist trained at the university, served as Peru's minister of health from 2016 to 2017.在该校接受流行病学训练的帕特里夏·加西亚·富内格拉于 2016 至 2017 年任秘鲁卫生部长。
• Edward Málaga Trillo, a biologist and former professor, sat in the Congress of Peru for the 2021-2026 term.生物学家、原该校教授爱德华·马拉加·特里略在 2021 至 2026 年任秘鲁国会议员。
• Oswaldo Zegarra, a nephrologist, was rector from 1999 to 2007, a period in which the university consolidated its postgraduate school.肾脏病学家奥斯瓦尔多·塞加拉于 1999 至 2007 年任校长，任内该校研究生院得到巩固。
• Luis Varela Pinedo, rector from 2017 to 2021, resigned on 18 February 2021 during the Vaccine-gate scandal over the diversion of trial doses.路易斯·巴雷拉·皮内多于 2017 至 2021 年任校长，在试验疫苗流向丑闻中于 2021 年 2 月 18 日辞职。
• Enrique Castañeda Saldaña led the university from 2021 to 2026, a period that included the regulator's 2022 decision to rank it first in the country.恩里克·卡斯坦耶达·萨尔达尼亚于 2021 至 2026 年领导该校，其间监管机构于 2022 年将其列为全国第一。
• Wilfredo Gonzáles Lozada became rector for the 2026-2031 term, and Tomás Kirchhausen, a cell biologist at Harvard Medical School, is counted among the university's alumni.威尔弗雷多·冈萨莱斯·洛萨达就任 2026 至 2031 年任期校长，哈佛医学院细胞生物学家托马斯·基希豪森被列为该校校友。
• Humberto Guerra Allison, a physician and researcher associated with the tropical medicine institute, and Carlos Monge, rector from 1970 to 1972, are among the scientists the university claims as its own.与热带医学研究所关系密切的医生与研究者温贝托·格拉·阿利森，以及 1970 至 1972 年任校长的卡洛斯·蒙赫，均被该校列为自家的科学家。
• Patricia Sheen, a researcher in molecular microbiology, works on tuberculosis diagnostics at the Alexander von Humboldt institute and is listed among the university's notable faculty.分子微生物学研究者帕特里夏·希恩在亚历山大·冯·洪堡研究所从事结核病诊断研究，被列为该校知名教师。
• Dionicia Gamboa, a malariologist, and Javier Mariátegui, a physician and researcher, are also counted among the faculty the university presents as its scientific backbone.疟疾学家迪奥尼西亚·甘博亚与医生兼研究者哈维尔·马里亚特吉，同样被该校列为支撑其科研体系的教师。