MSM Through the Years
This is the year Morehouse School of Medicine was founded as a two-year Basic Sciences medical program at Morehouse College.
What is 1975?
This three-letter committee reviews research involving human participants.
What is the IRB (Institutional Review Board)?
Established in 1994, this MSM institute investigates the functional organization of the nervous system and neurological disorders.
What is the Neuroscience Institute?
MSM started this doctoral research degree program in 1992.
What is the PhD program?
MSM celebrated this major anniversary in 2025.
What is its 50th anniversary?
(1975 → 2025)
Six years after its founding, MSM reached this major institutional milestone.
What is becoming an independently chartered medical institution in 1981?
Known by the acronym CLAR, this MSM resource supports work involving laboratory animals.
What is the Center for Laboratory Animal Resources?
Established in 1999, this institute connects molecular biology, genetics and physiology with clinical investigation, epidemiology and community interventions.
What is the Cardiovascular Research Institute?
MSM launched this population-health graduate degree in 1995.
What is the Master of Public Health (MPH)?
MSM increased its MD class size to this number in 2015.
What is 84?
This residency program was the first established at MSM, beginning the same year MSM became independent.
What is Family Medicine?
This MSM research resource is abbreviated OTT.
What is the Office of Translational Technologies?
Established in 1998, this MSM center focuses on strengthening primary care and improving health outcomes while advancing health equity.
What is the National Center for Primary Care?
Introduced in 2002, this master's program prepares learners for clinical and translational research.
What is the Master of Science in Clinical Research?
Just one year later, in 2016, the MD class size increased to this number.
What is 92?
Before MSM opened in 1975, Morehouse College received a federal grant in this year to study the feasibility of developing a two-year medical program.
What is 1973?
Cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease and this field are among the research areas specifically included in MSM's Biomedical Sciences PhD training.
What is neuroscience?
Also established in 1998, this MSM center belongs to a CDC-funded network of academic research centers.
What is the Prevention Research Center?
Introduced in 2014, this master's degree focuses on the study of the nervous system.
What is the Master of Science in Neuroscience?
By 2017, MSM's MD class size reached this three-digit milestone.
What is 100?
MSM launched two residency programs in the same year—name BOTH.
What are Internal Medicine and Psychiatry?
Spell it out: MSM lists this NIH-supported infrastructure program under the acronym RCMI.
What is Research Centers in Minority Institutions?
Established in 2002 with NIMHD funding, this center has supported work spanning mental health, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, maternal and child health, and cancer.
What is the Center of Excellence on Health Disparities?
This thesis-based master's program provides mentored research training for students pursuing research, doctoral study or health professions.
What is the Master of Science in Biomedical Research (MSBR)?
Put these three MSM milestones in chronological order: MPH Program, Surgery Residency, PhD Program.
What are PhD Program (1992), Surgery Residency (1993), and MPH Program (1995)?