Loyola University Chicago

American private Jesuit university in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, with campuses at Lake Shore, Water Tower and the health sciences campus at Maywood. Runs the Stritch School of Medicine, the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health on the health sciences campus alongside Loyola University Medical Center, and carries out research in infectious disease and immunology, oncology, neuroscience and burn and trauma care with a clinical research office running trials.