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Discovery and Innovation

  • RESEARCH MILESTONES
  • Painless Colonoscopy
  • Nobel Prize for MRI
  • Protein Folding Simulation
  • First Virus Synthesis
  • Dino Bird
  • Only One With Two CATs
  • Managing a National Lab
  • First Two SUNY Drugs
  • Most Distant Galaxies
  • Finding the Top Quark
  • Unlocking the Gene
  • Finding the Missing Link
  • Cause of Lyme Disease
  • Life by the Numbers
  • Origin of the Ozone Hole
  • The Age of the Moon
  • Protecting the Environment

  • RESEARCH MILESTONES >  

2004

Virtual Colonoscopy Screenshot
FDA Approves 3-D Virtual Colonoscopy for Detection of Colon Cancer

2003

Nobel Prize Ceremony
Nobel Recognizes MRI's Start at Stony Brook

2002

Protein folding simulation
Realizing the Promise of "Post-Genomic Medicine"

2002

DNA analysis of the Polio virus
Polio Virus Made "From Scratch"

1998

Drawing of the primitive fossil bird
Primitive Fossil Bird Provides Crucial Missing Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds

1998

CAT Biotech logo
SBU is the Only Institution in NY with Two Centers for Advanced Technology

1998

BNL Logo
Stony Brook is Awarded the Contract to Manage Brookhaven National Laboratory

1998

Bottle of Reopro
ReoPro and Periostat, SUNY's First Two FDA Approved Drugs

1996

Hubble Space Telescope Image
Research Using Data from the Hubble Space Telescope Examines the Most Distant Galaxies

1995

Top Quark diagram
DZero Experiment Finds the Top Quark

1984

Abstract gene image
Discovery of Anti-Sense RNA Opens Door to Genetic Research

1983

Lucy's bones annotated
Analyzing "Lucy": The Seductions of Hominid Fossil Interpretation

1982

Photo of a Deer Tick
Discovery of the Cause of Lyme Disease

1982

Detail of a mosquito wing
What Comes After Genus and Species?

1981

Marker at the South Pole
Tracking the Ozone Hole

1969

Photo of the moon
Moon Rocks and the Age of the Moon

1967

Abstract of planet Earth
Creation of the Environmental Defense Fund

 


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