To develop and foster research activity related to historical and social studies on medicine and science.

To offer postgraduate teaching (at master's and doctoral level) in the field of the history of science and scientific communication, within the framework of the University of Valencia's Official Postgraduate Programmes.

To carry out activities to disseminate and popularise scientific culture.

To preserve, study and propagate our historico-medical and historico-scientific heritage, by digitalising printed texts, cataloguing and studying the collection of medical and scientific instruments and disseminating our bibliographical and documentary holdings.