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First to receive the largest gift ever made to public higher education — $250 million to found the CU Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities.
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World's
first liver transplant.
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First
to identify "battered child" syndrome.
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Pioneer
in development of influenza vaccines and eradication of smallpox.
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First
classification and numbering system of human chromosomes, now the
international standard.
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First
to use human cell cloning to study genetics and cancer.
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First
nurse practitioner program in the nation.
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First
immunology research to identify synergism between B- and T-lymphocytes.
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First
to discover that lymphocytes are preprogrammed to respond to antigens,
the foundation of modern immunology.
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First
characterization of the genetics of alcohol addiction in mice.
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First
to discover how a human cancer gene functions.
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First
fetal cell implant for Parkinson's Disease in the nation.
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First
description of Toxic Shock Syndrome.
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First
to analyze the molecular structure that allows T cells to recognize
antigens.
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World's
first 3-D images of the human body derived from anatomical sections.
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First
to define ARDS (adult respiratory distress syndrome).
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First
to provide a nationwide computerized network of family physicians
for practice-based research, a model replicated worldwide.
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