On Apr. 10, 2000, the Oregon Health Science Centers (OHSU) Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology…
On Apr. 1, 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the IV-infection surveillance case definition was…
On Mar. 3, 2000 Annie was born, the first of a new breed of dairy cows whose udders…
In 2000, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research opened its doors. The Institute was founded by Jim and…
In 2000, BioAlberta, a private, not-for-profit industry association, was founded. BioAlberta represents the growing biotechnology sector. On behalf…
In 2000, Fox Chase Cancer Center received Magnet Designation for Nursing Excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center….
In 2000, the use of Oral polio vaccine (OPV) was discontinued in the U.S. to eliminate the risk…
On Apr. 26, 2000, the Jon M. Huntsman pledged $125 million to fund cancer research and construct the…
In 2000, researchers discovered that the most common form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, is…
In 2000, the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI), later known as the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, opened its…
On Oct. 1, 2001, U.S. Federal agencies became required to issue guidelines to maximize the quality, objectivity, utility,…
In 2000, the Fred Hutchinson Business Alliance announced that the E. Donnall Thomas Medal of Achievement was awarded…
In 2000, measles was declared no longer endemic in the U.S. following eradication campaigns that began in 1967….
In 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation began as the William H. Gates Foundation established in 1994,…
On Jan. 10, 2012, the Norris Foundation made a $15 million commitment toward construction of the Harlyne J….
In 2000, the Center for Clinical Sciences Research building opened, and is an example of a fully integrated…
In 2000, researchers from Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos national laboratories at the Joint Genome Institute…
In 2000, Stanford researchers led by Ash Alizadeh announced they had used gene expression profiling to identify two…
In 2000, the University of California, Riverside Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering was established to capitalize on…
In 2000, Colorado Biotechnology Council (CBA) was established by the Governor’s office to: recommend goals, policies and actions…
In 2000, the Georgetown University Hospital became part of MedStar Health, a not-for-profit network of seven hospitals in…
In 2000, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, was founded when the Georgetown University Medical Center authorized the establishment…
In 2000, Eli Lilly and Takeda Chemical launched Actos, an oral anti diabetes agent. In 2005, a PROactive…
In 2000, University of Minnesota research team led by Vivek Kapur announced they had completed the sequencing of…
On Dec. 29, 1999, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bexarotene (Targretin) to treat cutaneous T-cell…
On Dec. 13, 1999, the University of Washington (UW) announced that Dr. Leroy Hood, chair of the Department…
On Dec. 9, 1999, the diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tripedia by Connaught) was licensed….
On Dec. 8, 1999, the National Cancer Institute published the Atlas of Cancer Mortality, 1950-94, showing the geographic…
On Dec. 2, 1999, an international team of researchers at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge, England; University of…
On Dec. 2, 1999, Alvin and Ruth Siteman donated $35 million to establish the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer…