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, 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, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a formulation of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug, liraglutide,…
On Dec. 23, 2014, Juno Therapeutics announced the closing of its initial public offering of 12.7 million shares…
On Dec. 22, 2014, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved RAPIVAB (peramivir…
On Dec. 18, 2014, the University of Nebraska Medical Center announced it had received a $1.3 million gift…
On Dec. 11, 2014, Dr. Andras Nagy, from the University of Toronto and leader of Project Grandiose, announced…
On Dec. 11, 2014, Merck announced that the FDA had approved GARDASILﾮ9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant), Merckﾒs…
On Dec. 12, 2014, Sanofi Pasteur announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the supplemental…
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 TRUMENBAﾮ (meningococcal group B vaccine)…
On Oct. 23, 2014, philanthropist Paul G. Allen donated $100 million to fight Ebola and called on the…
On Oct. 21, 2014, the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) announced that technology investor David Roux and his wife Barbara…
On Oct. 20, 2014, Oregon Health & Science University’s Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute (OHSU) announced it was…
On Oct. 15, 2014, Genentech drug Esbriet (pirfenidone) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
On Oct. 15, 2014, the University of Iowa ushered in a new age of accelerated research in biomedicine…
On Oct. 13, 2014, the University of Minnesota’s Children’s Hospital was renamed the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s…