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t m c » p u l s e | j a n / f e b 2 0 1 7 17 MD Anderson launches the Moon Shots Program, to improve cancer prevention. Texas Children's Pavilion for Women delivers the Perkins sextuplets at 30 weeks. All six babies—three boys and three girls—survive. 4 2 0 1 2 Texas Heart Institute releases the first patient in the world with an electric, portable, battery-powered heart pump. 3 1 9 9 1 The TMC launches the TMC Innovation Institute. 2 0 1 4 Researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine discover a way to grow blood vessels and capillaries. 2 0 1 1 Ronald McDonald House Houston opens Holcombe House, with 50 private bedrooms. Memorial Hospital System merges with Hermann Hospital, forming the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. 1 9 9 7 Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital opens. 2 1 9 8 9 Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children's Hospital (BIPAI) opens a 21,000-square-foot clinical care center in Kampala, Uganda. After receiving 6,000 transfer patients on opening day, it becomes the world's largest pediatric HIV/AIDS center. (Credit: Smiley N. Pool) 2 0 0 8 TIRR joins the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, becoming TIRR Memorial Hermann. 2 0 0 6 The Menninger Clinic, founded in Kansas in 1925 to lead psychiatric treatment, research and education, relocates to Houston. 2 0 0 3 Dr. Richard E. Smalley, a chemist and Rice University professor, shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on "buckyballs," a new form of carbon. 1 9 9 6 Texas A&M Health Science Center begins operation. 1 9 9 9 Life Gift is established to help anyone in need of a life-saving organ or a tissue transplant. It was originally named Gulf Coast Independent Organ Procurement Organization. 1 9 8 7 Jim Boysen receives the world's first partial skull and scalp transplant. Doctors from Houston Methodist and MD Anderson perform the surgery. The TMC launches the TMC Health Policy Institute. 2 0 1 5 2 0 1 6 Johnson & Johnson opens JLABS @ TMC, where emerging companies can bring innovative solutions to patients. AT&T Foundry for Connected Health opens at the TMC Innovation Institute. The TMC completes a member-wide strategic planning process that outlines five collaborative institutes and TMC 3 , a translational research campus. (Credit: Gensler)