LSI Timeline

1998

April - Life Sciences Commission Formed

1999

February - Life Sciences Commission recommends new Institute
April - Regents approve plans for an Institute building
May - Regents approve creation and endowment of Institute

2000

September - Ground broken on Palmer Drive site
October - Biological Chemistry chair Jack Dixon named institute director

2001

March - Alan Saltiel named first LSI faculty member
April - Kickoff celebration

2002

April - Elizabeth Barry named managing director
May - First LSI symposium: “Structural Biology of Cell Signaling”
July - Jack Dixon announces his departure for UCSD
September – Mary Sue Coleman named president of University of Michigan; Alan Saltiel named LSI director; Charter faculty appointed

2003

May – Advisory Board and Executive Committee named Second LSI Symposium: “Genetic Insights into Biology and Disease”
September - LSI building complete, move-in begins

2004

April - Perrigo Undergraduate Fellowship Program established
May - Center for Chemical Genomics and Center for Structural Biology are launched;Grand opening celebration and third LSI Symposium: “Exploring the Complexity of Life”
June - LSI faculty at 13

2005

April - LSI faculty at 17
May - Fourth annual LSI Symposium: “Cancer Insights: Molecules to Medicine”
September - U-M Center for Stem Cell Biology established

2006

May - Fifth annual LSI Symposium: “Molecular Insights into Metabolic Disease”
September - LSI faculty at 25

2007

May - Sixth annual LSI Symposium: “Frontiers in Stem Cell Biology”

2008

May - Seventh annual LSI Symposium: “Focus on Chemical Biology”
June - Innovation Partnership begins
July - UM/Israeli Universities Research Partnership launched
September - LSI Directorship named for President Mary Sue Coleman
October - LSI faculty is full with 29 faculty and initial recruiting completed

2009

March - Cryo-EM laboratory completed
May - Eighth annual LSI Symposium: “Evolutionary Biology: 150 Years After The Origin”