Duke University Health System and LifePoint Hospitals form Duke LifePoint, a joint venture designed to strengthen and improve health care delivery throughout North Carolina and the surrounding regions by creating flexible affiliation options for community hospitals.
Duke Medicine Timeline
- Duke LifePoint is established
- Robert Lefkowitz wins the Nobel Prize
Dr. Robert Lefkowitz wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with his former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Brian Kobilka for their work with G protein-coupled receptors.
- Durham Regional Hospital becomes Duke Regional Hospital
Durham Regional Hospital is renamed Duke Regional Hospital
- Paul Modrich wins the Nobel Prize
Dr. Paul Modrich wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on mechanistic studies of DNA repair with his colleagues Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in the UK, and Aziz Sancar of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.