Provost & Presidents Picks | University Discoveries

Some significant discoveries from the list: Fetal Surgery Drs.Joseph Bruner and Noel Tulipan were determined to find a way to do...

Top University of Arizona Discoveries: Pima S-1Cotton was developed by Walker Bryan and standardized by Robert Peebles and has...

Top University of Michigan Discoveries: Francis S. Collins, his UM colleagues, and researchers at 8 other collaborating...

These are notable discoveries selected by presidents and provosts of leading universities in the United States. Click on a school belo

Josh Lederberg, Edward Tatum discovered bacterial recombination, which was then harnessed as a technique to explore biochemical...

In 1974, UCSF scientists co-discovered recombinant DNA techniques, the fundamental first step in the creation of the biotechnology...

The field of bioengineering was pioneered at UCSD. Y.C. Fung, is the father of biomechanics, and was awarded the President’s...

Dan Nathans invents gene splicing using restriction enzymes Hamilton Smith invents gene splicing using restriction enzymes John...

In late 1998, a UW-Madison group led by James Thomson was the first to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells, master...

In 1949 Dr. Benedict Cassen of the UCLA Department of Radiology developed the rectilinear scintillation scanner, an instrument that...

1988 Developed the first transgenic mouse, now in use worldwide for cancer research. Experiments with the mouse at Harvard led to a...

Recombinant DNA – Herbert Boyer (UC San Francisco) with Stanley Cohen (Stanford) Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scanning)...