A unique feature of this effort is that it involves a synergistic cooperation between the nation's largest urban public university and a consortium of highly endowed, world-class private medical institutions. The current consortium in the NYCBE consists of the CCNY School of Engineering, the CUNY Graduate and Medical Schools, and a citywide network of collaborators at most of the premier health care institutions in New York City including:

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Hospital for Special Surgery/ Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• New York University School of Medicine
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center