On Jun. 5, 2003, data from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial gave fresh insight…
On May 30, 2003, the Attorney General of California consented to the sale of the assets of the…
On May 28, 2003, the world’s first cloned horse named Prometea was born at the Laboratory of Reproductive…
On May 22, 2003, Amgen announced it was relocating its cancer research division to Seattle following its acquisition…
On May 13, 2003, the FDA approved the drug bortezomib (Velcade) for the treatment of multiple myeloma. In…
On May 4, 2003, University of Idaho-Utah State University researchers became the first in the world to clone…
On May 1, 2003, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published, allowing…
On Apr. 27, 2003, Stanford researchers found that Wnt genes, first discovered as critical genes in cancer, are…
On Apr. 24, 2003, the National Cancer Institute, CDC, AHRQ, and SAMHSA, in collaboration with the American Cancer…
On Apr. 23, 2003, Dr. Vincent Poitout at the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation (PNRF) won the Thomas R….
On Apr. 15, 2003, the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLB) announced a $37 million trial, coordinated by…
On Apr. 14, 2003, researchers at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science Centre in Vancouver announced they had sequenced…
On Apr. 14, 2003, The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, led in the U.S. the National Human Genome…
On Apr. 7, 2003, the National Academy of Sciences released “Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food,” a report…
On Apr. 2, 2003, the Virginia Mason Research Center, located in Seattle, was renamed Benaroya Research Institute at…
In Sept. 2003, Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute opened a new, 280,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility, adding new research and high-tech…
On Apr. 1, 2003, the birth of a cloned banteng from a surrogate mother cow was announced by…
On Mar. 24, 2003, the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University announced it had received a $10 million…
On Mar. 24, 2003, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Edwin J. Vandenberg “to recognize…
On Mar. 18, 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was placed on U.S. quarantine list. Persons under quarantine…
On Mar. 5, 2003, taking daily aspirin for as little as 3 years was shown to reduce the…
On Mar. 4, 2003, Beth Israel Deaconess researchers pinpointed the source of preeclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy….
On Mar. 6, 2003, the Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO), announced they…
At t he end of February 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)…
On February 24 2003, VaxGen announced that AIDSVAX B/B did not prove effective in the trials conducted in…
On Feb. 14, 2003, a CT scan was performed on Dolly and it was determined that tumours were…
On Jan. 26, 2003, President Bush, in his State of the Union Address, announced the Emergency Plan for…
On Jan. 10, 2003, long-term efficacy and safety of etanercept (Enbrel) was found in children with polyarticular-course juvenile…
In Jan. 2003, the Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster, an Arizona not-for-profit organization, was formed to share technological advances, and…
On Jan. 1, 2003, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) encouraged that children 6 to 23 months…