On May 2, 2016, John Sharp, Chancellor of The Texas A&M University System, unveiled plans to invest $150…
On Apr. 29, 2016, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, received U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
On April 28, 2016, Harvard researcher Andrew Kruse and collaborators first revealed the molecular structure of the sigma-1…
On Apr. 18, 2016, a team of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) researchers led by Gary Gorbsky found…
On Jun. 14, 2016, the FDA approved changes to vaccine administrationﾠschedule for Trumenba vaccine produced by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals,…
On Apr. 13, 2016, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy was created with a $250 million grant from…
On Apr. 5, 2016, Physio-Control was acquired by Michigan-based Stryker Corp. which acquired 100% of the stock of…
On Apr. 4, 2016, UNMC researchers, Tony Wilson, Ph.D., and Susan Swindells, M.B.B.S., working with a $2.2 million,…
On Mar. 29, 2016, Johns Hopkins University announced gifts totaling $125 million to create a cancer research institute…
On Mar. 15, 2016, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Mostafa A. El-Sayed “to recognize…
On Mar. 14, 2016, Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced an agreement to acquire all of Bioject Medical Technologies’ assets including…
On Mar. 14, 2006, Providence Health & Services and the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) announced an affiliation…
On Mar. 11, 2016, Japanese scientists announced they had discovered a species of bacteria that was “eating” its…
On Mar. 8, 2016, the University of Kansas (KU) announced receipt of a $1 million gift to the…
On Mar. 3, 2016, the University of Oregon (UO) announced receipt of a $10 million gift from Tim…
On Feb. 17, 2016, MD Anderson Cancer Center was awarded $14 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research…
On Feb. 17, 2016, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) awarded grants totaling $26,000,000 to…
On Feb. 3, 2016, OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital unveiled a 3-Tesla intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging machine that provides…
On Feb. 1, 2016, the U.S. recommended immunization schedulesﾠfor 0 through 18 years and “catch up” published in…
On Jan. 27, 2016, the Scripps Research Institute announced it had received $12.8 million from philanthropist and businessman…
On Jan. 19, 2016, the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced…
On Jan. 12, 2016, a consortium of industry, government, and academia announced the launch of the Cancer MoonShot…
On Jan. 11, 2016, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended biennial screening mammography for women aged…
On Jan. 11, 2016, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research scientist David J. Smith reported finding that…
In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the establishment of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AR)…
On Apr. 11, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had granted accelerated approval…
In 2016, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech was founded with a $1 billion…
In 2016, Siteman and St. Louis Children’s Hospital established Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, focused on…
On Dec, 22, 2015, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science was established by resolution of…
On Dec. 14, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had expanded Merck’s Gardasil 9…