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Now an Oakland landmark, the premier biomedical research institute of Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland was once nothing more than a handful of scientists, a generous gift – and a vision of what research, at its best, could truly be.
In 1959, with just 5 employees, The Bruce Lyon Memorial Research Laboratory, as CHORI was then called, moved into a tiny surgical lab behind the hospital. They were such a small operation that they could keep handwritten paper ledgers to track their budget.
A rather inauspicious beginning – but even then, the research institute was already making a name for itself – as the first research laboratory in northern California that dedicated itself exclusively to researching children’s diseases. Before long, the research budget had quadrupled, the number of scientists on staff had doubled, and the vision of a premier research institution began to be realized.
With world-class scientists and research centers known both nationally and internationally in multiple fields, CHORI has since become 5th in the nation for National Institutes of Health pediatric research funding and has 6 different Centers of Research. A collaborative nexus for innovative research and learning that stretches beyond local boundaries, CHORI is at the forefront
of basic and clinical research that strives to change the world - one patient at a time.
Please visit our CHORI Timeline for a snapshot of CHORI's accomplishments during the last half century, and stay tuned as well for upcoming information about our celebratory 50th Anniversary Symposium in March, 2010.
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