First federally-funded dialysis clinic; “Suitcase” dialysis. Instrumental in obtaining Federal approval to have Medicare cover dialysis costs. Jun 7 2017
Development of extracorporeal oxygenator used in open-heart surgery. First successful open heart surgery in New York State. Jun 7 2017
Development of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging; first-ever large-scale MRI scan of human subject. Jun 7 2017
Led research that developed Tc99m-MDP, a short-lived radioactive material that is injected into a vein and absorbed by the bones. The bone metabolizes the agent and shows high- and low-concentrations of it, indicating tumors or lesions in the bone. Jun 7 2017
Hyaluronidases are a family of six enzymes discovered in the Human Genome and identified for the first time. This was accomplished in a coordinated approach using enzyme chemistry, cell biology, and bioinformatics Jun 7 2017