On Apr. 25, 2008, marked the first-ever World Malaria Day established by the United Nations to ensure that…
On Apr. 18, 2008, the Claude Moore Health Education and Research Center opened in Northern Virginia and houses…
Apr. 1, 2008, a team of researchers from Stanford’s School of Medicine announced they had developed a new…
On Mar. 6, 2008, DNA mutations found in a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that has a poor prognosis…
On Feb 25, 2008, the Pacific Northwest Research Institute changed its name to Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute…
On Feb. 19, 2008, Lokey Laboratories which house the Nanoscience Research Center at the University of Oregon (UO)…
On Jan. 22, 2008, an international research consortium announced the 1000 Genomes Project, an ambitious effort that involved…
In 2008, results from a large multicenter study showed that the accuracy of computerized tomographic colonography (virtual colonoscopy)…
In 2008, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
In 2008, the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCC) received NCI designation, a…
In 2008, the Tisch Cancer Institute (TCI) was founded through the generosity of James and Merryl Tisch. James…
In 2008, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance introduced the Mammovan, making digital mammography more accessible to women throughout…
On Dec. 19, 2007, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), a $150 million initiative, was established by the National…
On Dec. 18, 2007, World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) shines a bright light on autism as a growing…
On Dec. 12, 2007, the Breast Cancer Research Stamp Reauthorization Act extended through Dec. 31, 2011, provisions requiring…
On Dec. 12, 2007, Merck voluntarily recalled 1.2 million doses of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccines due…
On Nov. 26, 2007, the Rotary International announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that…
On Nov. 19, 2007, the University of California at San Francisco Cancer (UCSF) Research Institute was renamed the…
On Oct. 29, 2007, the International HapMap Consortium announced it had published an analyses of its second-generation map…
on Oct. 15, 2007, the annual report from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) showed that cancer death rates…
On Oct. 9, 2007, the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT was established with…
On Sept. 28, 2007, the National Institute for Nanotechnology’s (NINT) Innovation Centre at the University of Alberta officially…
On Sept. 24, 2007, David H. Murdock donated $35 million to Duke University to fund the Measurement to…
On Sept. 23, 2007, the Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI) was awarded “cancer center” designation from the National Cancer…
On Aug. 20, 2007, researchers from Stanford University announced they had identified a pattern of gene expression shared…
On Jul. 17, 2007, The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it was providing states,…
On Jul. 11, 2007, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced a leadership gift of $5.5 million from…
On Jun. 14, 2007, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the 3-year pilot phase of a new program…
On Jun. 7, 2007, years before the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, a group of about 100…
On May 15, 2007, the University of New Mexico Cancer Center broke ground on new state-of-the-art cancer treatment…