Inventor of the Blood Banks -----Dr. Charles Richard Drew

Medical and higher education

• In 1966, the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School was incorporated in California and was named in his honor. This later became the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
• Charles Drew Health Center, Omaha, Nebraska
• Charles Drew Science Enrichment Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
• Charles Drew Health Foundation, East Palo Alto, California, 1960s-2000, was the community's only clinic for decades.
• Charles Drew Community Health Center, located in Burlington, NC near the site of the old Alamance County hospital.
• Charles Drew Pre-Health Society, University of Rochester
• Charles R Drew Wellness Center in Columbia, South Carolina
• Charles R. Drew Hall, an all-male freshman dorm at Howard University, Washington D.C
• Charles Drew Memorial Cultural House, residence at Amherst College, his alma mater