Stanford University is founded.

Stanford University is opened.

Cooper Medical College is adopted as Stanford University's School of Medicine by the Board of Trustees.

Medical school moves from SF to new quarters – including classrooms, laboratories, hospital and clinics, on Stanford campus. The Hospital was known as the Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center.

California’s first kidney transplantation is performed at the Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center.

Malcolm Bagshaw at Stanford develops a type of radiation therapy called high-dose, small-field radiation to treat prostate cancer without the need for surgery.

Stanley Cohen co-develops gene cloning and ignites the biotechnology revolution

William Robinson isolates the genome of the virus that causes hepatitis B and a common form of liver cancer.

Children's Hospital at Stanford opens a new wing to house the Stanford-Children's Ambulatory Care Center, consolidating all pediatric outpatient services of Stanford University Medical Center.

A modernization program to upgrade and expand facilities is signed with Children's Hospital at Stanford that consolidates all pediatric services in the new Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Ground is broken for the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

Stanford University Hospital opens a new wing, the first major modernization project since 1959.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is opened.

The Hospital’s Liver Transplant Programs begins, and today it ranks among the top liver transplant centers in the nation.

Susan Knox uses radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies to treat patients with lymphoma and solid tumors.

Branimir Sikic, George Fisher and Cheryl Cho develop a new treatment for metastatic colorectal cancers.

The new Stanford Cancer Center building opens.

The Hospital becomes one of only a few in the world chosen to treat a patient with the first-ever FDA-approved therapeutic cancer vaccine.