UW physicians performed the Northwest's first heart transplant in 1985, followed in 1990 by the first liver, kidney and pancreas transplants, and yet another first in 1993 with the first lung transplant for cystic fibrosis. The Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center was opened in 1973. And in 1997, UWMC opened the Melanoma Center with treatments including gene therapy and lymphatic mapping. UWMC has been on the front lines of research and treatment in areas such as high-risk pregnancies, neonatal care, infertility, cancer, cardiac diseases, diabetes, bone and joint diseases and injuries and rehabilitation. Animal research has been the very fabric around which much work in humans has been based.
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