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Discoveries and Innovations in Patient Care and Research

Innovation Spotlight

University of California, Davis, School of Medicine  - 2005
Demonstrated that children with autism have different immune system responses than children who do not have it. The results are important evidence that autism, currently defined primarily by distinct behaviors, may be potentially defined by distinct biologic changes as well.

Did you know? Medical schools and teaching hospitals receive funding for research from both federal and state agencies, private industry, and philanthropic efforts. Medical institutions predominately receive federal funding for research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In fact, more than 50 percent of all extramural research (grants to outside scientists) sponsored by the NIH is conducted by AAMC member medical schools and teaching hospitals. In 2003, these institutions received more than $11 billion in research funding from the NIH.

The AAMC has gathered a list of many of the milestones in medical knowledge and practice achieved at these institutions. The reported discoveries run from 1809 to the present. As new advances in patient care and research are realized, this site will be updated.

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For More Information: To contribute an innovation to the database or to learn more about a featured institution, please contact Nicole Buckley, nbuckley@aamc.org.

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