History: Key dates

 

 1931

Professor Niehans begins injecting fresh cells at Clinique La Prairie 

 

 1947 

Preserved cells are first injected  

 

 1949

Freeze-dried cells are first injected 

 

 1953

Professor Niehans treats Pope Pius XII, making Clinique La Prairie's Revitalization cure famous worldwide 

 

 1960

Under the impetus of Professor Niehans, the International Society for the Ethics of Cellular Therapy is created 

 

 1966

Professor Niehans retires (died in 1971)

 

 1976

Armin Mattli purchases Clinique La Prairie

 

 1987

President Armin Mattli assigns Professor Otto Westphal (former director of the Max-Planck immunology Institute, Freiburg, Germany) the task of launching a vast scientific research program on CLP Extract 

 

 1988

Progressively purified and made increasingly safe, the product injected for Revitalization treatments becomes today's CLP Extract, and continues to be refined

 

 1991

Inauguration of the Clinique La Prairie’s medical center, with its operating rooms, examination rooms, radiology department, etc. 

 

 1992

Dr Thierry Waelli becomes medical director of the Clinique and considerably develops the medical and paramedical services on offer

 

 1998

Creation of the Clinique La Prairie Foundation for Aging and Immunology Research

 

 2003

The biological effects of CLP Extract observed in a number of research projects conducted by members of the CLP international scientific research committee are patented at the European Patent Office in Munich

 

 2005

Inauguration of the new Spa Clinique La Prairie offering activities related to wellness and thalassotherapy, as well as 24 new rooms and suites at the Château

 2007

Successful introduction of the latest generation of CLP Revitalization, based on the results of acquired scientific knowledge

 

Inauguration of the new medical center, now recognized as an international center of reference 

 

 2010

Dr Adrian Heini becomes the medical director of the Clinique 

 

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