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Milestones

1956 Beginning the first operational kidney dialysis unit in the metropolitan area
 
1963 Performing the first kidney transplant in the metropolitan area
 
1968 Official founding of the Rogosin Kidney Center (RKC) at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
 
1972 Opening of Rogosin Kidney Center’s dialysis outpatient facility
 
1975 Establishment of home hemodialysis program
 
1981 Performing the first LDL-apheresis procedure in the U.S. to reverse Atherosclerosis

Beginning of Chronic Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) as a home Self-Dialysis treatment

 
1983 Establishment of The Rogosin Institute as a independent not-for profit institution
 
1985 Establishment of Lipid Research Laboratory

Establishment of Comprehensive Lipid Control Center (CLCC)

Beginning of clinical research for cancer treatment

 
1986 Initiation of RI Diabetes Research Program
 
1988 1988 Addition of The Health Foundation to The Rogosin Institute
 
1989 1989 Beginning of Pediatric Lipid Control Program of the CLCC

Beginning of research in pancreatic islet transplantation

 
1990 1990 Establishment of Islet Purification Laboratory

Establishment of RI Transplantation Center

 
1993 Opening of The Rogosin Institute Queens Dialysis Center
 
1994 1994 Creation of The Rogosin Institute's Diabetes Research Center in Xenia, OhiO

Relocation of CLCC Research Laboratories to The Rockefeller University

Beginning of Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation Program

Opening of The Rogosin Institute Brooklyn Dialysis Center at New York Methodist Hospital

 
1999 RI's 2000th kidney transplantt