On Jan. 23, 2007, results from a large phase III clinical trial show that adult patients with previously…
On Jan. 15, 2007, President Bush signed H.R. 6164 as P.L. 109-482, the National Institutes of Health Reform…
On Jan. 12, 2007, the Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005′, or “Johanna’s Law’” (P.L. 109-475)…
On Jan. 9, 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved a refrigerated form…
On Jan. 9, 2007, the Executive Committee of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists approved an interim…
On Jan. 3, 2007, Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger, then Carilion Clinic President and CEO Edward G….
On Jan.2, 2007, Merck announced that it had completed its acquisition of Sirna Therapeutics for $1.1 billion in…
In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported the first significant outbreaks of Zika virus infection involving more…
In Jan. 2007, the sequencing of the horse genome project was completed. The initial goal of the Horse…
In 2007, the U.S. Congress declared May National Cancer Control Month, an opportunity to educate all Americans about…
In 2007, Richard Nakamura, Ph.D., became the first Asian American scientific director of the National Institute of Mental…
In 2007, researchers at Livermore National Laboratory announced they had developed candidate signatures for pathogens that might be…
In 2007, West Campus, located on 136 acres 7 miles west of downtown New Haven, was acquired. West…
In January 2007, scientists at the University of Iowa reported in the Journal of Virology that they had…
In 2007, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) was formed as an economic development and investment agency dedicated…
On Nov. 8, 2007, researchers from Brigham and Women’s and MIT’s Broad Institute and Harvard discovered a gene…
In 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Elelyso (taliglucerase alfa) for long-term enzyme replacement therapy…
In 2007, Nancy Wexler, PhD, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science for her discovery of the…
In 2007, Dr. Jordan Tang, led a team of scientists at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) that identified…
In 2007, The Oregon Translational Research and Drug Discovery Institute (OTRADI) at Oregon State University was established by…
In 2007, the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery was established, combining the expertise of four groups of…
In 2007, The St. Jude LIFE study on the long-term effects of cancer and its treatment began. This…
In 2007, Texans voted to create the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) and to invest…
In 2007, Texas Biomed geneticists announced their discovery that a particular gene, VNN1, plays a major role in…
In 2007, the Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) was founded at Virginia Commonwealth University to enhance…
In 2007, R. Paul Robertson, M.D., at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute, received two grants totaling $3,173,400 from…
In 2007, Cocrystal Discovery, now known as Cocrystal Pharma, was founded in Bothell as a pharmaceutical company with…
On Apr. 25, 2007, Jubilant Organosys, Ltd. announced it had acquired Spokane-based Hollister-Stier for $122.5 million. The plant…
On Dec. 14, 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a multi-state outbreak of…
On Nov. 27, 2006, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was officially signed into law by President George…