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| 1998 |
• Increased the payout on the endowment for the 102 endowed professorships based at the hospitals. Over a five-year period, this added $20 million to the affiliates’ academic budgets to pay for teaching • The Executive Council on Diversity developed a uniform plan to monitor recruitment of minorities in all HMS residency programs
• Dr. Martin commissioned the portraits of the first four women department
chairs for the Faculty Room that previously had only portraits of men.
• A new Academic Society Committee on Community Service was formed under the auspices of the Office of Enrichment Programs. The committee advises and provides funding for student service projects
September• The JDF Center for Islet Cell Transplantation at Harvard Medical School created via a $20 million, 5-year grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation to support more than 30 researchers from across several Harvard intuitions • Ed Harlow appointed to head the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
December• Division of Service Learning created |
New portraits in Faculty Room
New BCMP Chair Ed Harlow
Division of Service Learning Created |
| 1999 |
January • First round of competitive seed grants that paired researchers on the quadrangle with colleagues at the hospitals Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center officially receives National Cancer Institute cancer center grant. The more than $50 million grant funds 15 core facilities used by more than 900 faculty across the entire Harvard medical community, creating the largest cancer research enterprise in the country. In 2006, the DF/HCC received a highly favorable score from the NCI when its five-year comprehensive cancer center grant was reviewed. • Harvard–MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program Creates Martinos Center for Functional and Structural Biomedical Imaging
June• Carla Shatz recruited and appointed head of the Department of Neurobiology • Harvard Institute of Proteomics launched
December. |
Carla Shatz |
| 2000 | July • The Harvard Clinical Research Institute is launched. The partnership between HMS and Caregroup and Partners HealthCare creates a single gateway for industry-sponsored clinical research September • Center for Genomic Applications and Therapeutics in Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics formed
• Harvard Medical School/Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics opens |
Countway Library |
| 2001 |
• Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair is created with an anonymous $37.5 million gift, with faculty participating from all the major affiliates. In 2006, the HCNR’s Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration received a $9 million federal grant to take its drug discovery model national.
June • 600 Chinese physicians and health care leaders attend a week-long conference organized by Harvard Medical International. This was the largest group of Chinese representatives ever to visit the U.S. with the exception of the Olympic delegation September
October |
Chinese MDs visit HMI |
| 2002 |
January• Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership created and Joan Reede, MD, is appointed, the first African-American female dean in the history of the university February • The Academy at Harvard Medical School created to foster and reward the efforts of the most gifted and passionate teachers. George Thibault appointed head • Dean Joseph B. Martin meets with hospital CEOs and agrees to adopt a more aggressive and collaborative approach for recruiting senior-level minorities to the faculty |
Joan Reede |
| 2003 |
• Planning begins for new Allston campus • Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics created • Broad Institute launched • Department of Systems Biology is created. It’s the first entirely new department in more than 20 years, and the first systems biology department in the nation
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| 2004 |
• Nancy
Andrews, MD, PhD appointed first dean for basic sciences and graduate
studies
• Joan Brugge appointed chair of Department of Cell Biology • Harvard Stem Cell Institute launched
July • Curriculum reform pilot clerkships rollout |
Nancy Andrews
Joan Brugge |
| 2005 |
January • Harvard Medical International celebrates its ten-year anniversary. HMI now has 50 programs underway in 30 countries including India, China, and Dubai, with more than 200 HMS faculty members participating each year • MD-PhD Program in Social Science approved • MD-MBA program enrolls first students |
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| 2006 |
February • The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) award $800,000 to HMS’s new Leder Medical Sciences (LMS) program, a graduate program in translational research for the Quad’s basic science students.
July • Jim Kim, MD, PhD, named head of the Division of Social Medicine after two-year leave at WHO |
Jim Kim |
| 2007 |
• End of first year of new curriculum
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