1997	• Collaboration retreats with Harvard-affiliated hospital leadership begin   • 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 and required chairs to send proposals on how they would use the funds
1998	• A new system of appointments and promotions put in place, with emphasis placed upon the value of teaching as a vehicle to promotion   • 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.   May • 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   October • Ed Harlow appointed to head the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology   • Lipper Center for Computational Genetics formed   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.   May • 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   September • Harvard Institute of Proteomics launched   • First Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide published. As of 2006, Harvard Health Publications has its newsletters translated into Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Turkish. It’s partnership with Newsweek reaches 20 million readers in the U.S. December. • Launch of eCommons, the intranet bridge to the 10,000 medical school faculty	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   • Countway Library renovations finished     December • 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 • MyCourses Web portal launched, allowing students access to a wide array of course materials. As of 2006, MyCourses is visited more than 18,000 times each day by students and faculty. October • HMS Division of AIDS formed. As of 2006, the Division is working at 10 sites internationally, including three in Asia, three in the Caribbean, and four in Africa.	Chinese MDs visit HMI
2002	• First comprehensive review of HMS MD curriculum in 20 years begins   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   September • 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   January • Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics created   • Progam in Chemical Genetics launched   June • Broad Institute launched     September • 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   • Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research formed with $45.7 million federal grant. As of 2006, the NERCE has grown from 19 investigators at five institutions to 99 investigators at 46 institutions.   • New Research Building Opens (NRB), 525,000 square feet, the largest academic building in the history of the University
2004	• Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD appointed first dean for basic sciences and graduate studies   September • Joan Brugge appointed chair of Department of Cell Biology   April • 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   April • MD-PhD Program in Social Science approved   September • MD-MBA program enrolls first students   • Chemical Biology PhD program enrolls first students   • Systems Biology PhD program enrolls first students   • The Center for Biomedical Informatics is created within the Countway Library
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	June • End of first year of new curriculum

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