On Feb. 17, 2015, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) announced it had received a grant of US…
On Feb. 11, 2015, researchers announced they had sequenced the genomes of all 15 species of Darwin’s finches,…
On Jan. 23, 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Alert Network issued a…
On Jan. 23, 2015, Novartis announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted accelerated approval of…
On Jan. 12, 2015, The Albert Einstein Cancer Center became the only medical institution in New York City,…
In 2015, the 4D Nucleome Network was begun with the goal to develop and apply approaches to map…
In 2015, Dr. Horace H. Loh received the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) Lifetime Achievement Award…
In 2015, the California Life Sciences Association was founded. (CLSA) was founded when the Bay Area Bioscience Association…
In 2015, Yale Cancer Center was awarded a SPORE (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence) grant for translational research…
On Feb. 27, 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the West Africa…
In 2015, the state of Alaska Department of Health announced they had identified Alaskapox virus in a patient…
In 2015, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced The All of Us Research Program, a historic effort…
On Dec. 23, 2014, Novo Nordisk the FDA approved a formulation of Novo Nordiskï¾’s diabetes drug, liraglutide, for…
On Dec. 23, 2014, Juno Therapeutics announced the closing of its initial public offering of 12.7 million shares…
On Dec. 22, 2014, Sanofi Pasteur announced the FDA had approved the supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for…
On Dec. 22, 2014, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals announced the FDA had approved RAPIVAB (peramivir injection), an intravenous (i.v.) neuraminidase…
On Dec. 18, 2014, the University of Nebraska Medical Center announced it had received a $1.3 million gift…
On Dec. 11, 2014, Merck announced that the FDA had approved GARDASILï¾®9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant), Merckï¾’s…
On Dec. 12, 2014, Sanofi Pasteur announced the FDA had approved the supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for…
On Dec. 11, 2014, University of Minnesota mourned loss of Lee Wattenberg, M.D., recognized as the ‘father of…
On Dec. 10, 2014, Dr. Andras Nagy, from the University of Toronto and leader of Project Grandiose, announced…
On Dec. 9, 2014, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) announced that Debbie Yaver, Novozymes’ director of expression technology,…
On Dec. 8, 2014, philanthropist and entrepreneur Paul G. Allen announced a commitment of $100 million to create…
On Dec. 3, 2014, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center…
On Dec. 3, 2014, Fred Eshelman, CEO and founder of Wilmington-based PPD Inc. and a member of the…
On Nov. 27, 2014, two papers were published in Science that announced the completion and preliminary analyses of…
On Nov. 21, 2014, funding was announced for the TEC Health Accelerator for Alberta, to assist promising startup…
On Nov. 5, 2014, the Ford Family Foundation announced a $5 million grant to the Knight Cancer Institute…
On Oct. 29, 2014, Pfizer announced the FDA has granted accelerated approval of TRUMENBAï¾® (meningococcal group B vaccine)…
On Oct. 23, 2014, philanthropist Paul G. Allen donated $100 million to fight Ebola and called on the…