2000 - WMS established as part of a partnership with Leicester Medical School

2001 - Medical Teaching Centre building opened

2004 - First Dean of Warwick Medical School, Professor Yvonne Carter, appointed

2005 - Warwick Clinical Trials Unit established

2006 - £400 million University Hospital in Coventry opened, housing WMS Clinical Sciences Building

2007 - University of Leicester partnership dissolved: WMS granted independent degree-awarding

WMS the first new Medical School to join a Strategic Partnership with the Medical Research Council (MRC)

2008 - First submission to the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE): 10th in the UK for the quality of Health Services Research

2009 - Opening of the Surgical Training Centre

Completion of the new Clinical Trials Unit building

2010 - Professor Peter Winstanley appointed Dean