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2001 2006

NIH awards its largest
grant ever to the University 2013
1990 1990s selecting the School as one
of 12 institutions to lead the The University is named a
Marshall A. Lichtman is emerging field of clinical and Center for AIDS Research
appointed dean. by NIH, a designation that
translational research.
infuses $7.5 million into
HIV/AIDS work across the
Wilmot Cancer Center University and places it
The first heart
transplant at the launches a Cancer Stem Cell amongst the best in the
Medical Center Research Program, one of nation for research to
only three formal programs in
1980s Arthur Moss conducts is performed by the U.S. at the time. improve the prevention
and treatment of the
Ira Shoulson directs groundbreaking research H. Todd Massey. disease.
the clinical trial that proving implantable defibrillators
establishes Deprenyl prevented sudden death in high- 2002 2010
as a treatment for risk patients. His studies have David S. Guzick Mark B. Taubman
Parkinson’s disease. saved hundreds of thousands of is appointed is appointed dean.
lives around the world. dean.

1980 1990 2000 2010

Lowell A. Goldsmith is Edward M. Hundert is
appointed dean. appointed dean.
1996 2000

Robert J. Joynt is The Medical Center One of the greatest
appointed dean. is the first in the breakthroughs in cancer
1985 nation to implant prevention had its origins
an investigational at the Medical Center. The The Health Sciences Center
medical device that human papillomavirus for Computational Innovation
lowers blood pressure (HPV) vaccine became opens and is home to IBM's next
by activating the available when it was generation supercomputer—the
David H. Smith Porter Anderson body’s natural blood approved by the FDA to Blue Gene/Q—making it one of
pressure regulation prevent cervical cancer. the 5 most powerful university-
The FDA approves the Haemophilus influenza type b 2005 It was created in part by based supercomputing sites in the
systems.
(Hib) vaccine. The pioneering work in the development
nation. The facility is dedicated to
virologists William Bonnez,
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY
using cutting-edge computational
of the vaccine—which has virtually wiped out a leading
Richard Reichman, and
power to solve health care's most
cause of meningitis in preschoolers—was done by
Robert Rose.
2006
David H. Smith and Porter W. Anderson.
complex problems.
1990
2012