Global Firsts & Cutting-Edge Care (Present-2020)

2026 – World’s first paediatric robotic slide tracheoplasty with ECMO
2025 – 125th anniversary of CMC Vellore
2024 – 100th anniversary of Town Campus
2021

• India’s first transjugular pulmonary valve implantation
• India’s first transfemoral tricuspid valve procedure

Modern Expansion & Innovation (2000–1980)

2010 – Turning of the sod – Chittoor Campus
2000

• India’s first successful liver transplant
• Advanced Specialisations & Transplants (1980–1999)1998 – India’s first bone marrow transplant in a 6-month-old baby

1996

• India’s first Carotid Bifurcation Stenting
• World’s first trans-septal Carotid Stenting
• World’s first trans-jugular Mitral Valvuloplasty

1986 – India’s first bone marrow (stem cell) transplant for thalassemia

Pioneering Medical Breakthroughs (1979–1950)

1971 – India’s first successful kidney transplant
1970 – India’s first Department of Nephrology opened
1966 – India’s first civilian rehabilitation institute
1962 – India’s first kidney dialysis treatment introduced
1961 – India’s first successful open-heart surgery

Early Foundations (1949–1900)

1949 – South Asia’s first Neurological Sciences department
1948 – World’s first reconstructive surgery on leprosy patients
1942 – Medical College opens with full MBBS course
1918 – Medical School for women opens (Licentiate of Medical Practitioner course)
1906 – Nursing education programme opens

Last updated on 30 May, 2026

Valedictory Programme of 125 years celebrations