On Dec. 1, 2005, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute became Michigan’s first and only independent hospital exclusively…
On Nov. 11, 2005, the U.S. Congress authorized the 2-year extension of Postage Stamp for Breast Cancer Research…
On Nov. 10, 2005, Stanford researchers announced they had discovered obestatin, a hormone that suppresses appetite. The discovery…
On Nov. 7, 2005, the National Cancer Institute launched a cancer biorepository pilot project designed to standardize biospecimen…
On Oct. 5, 2005, the National Cancer Institute’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer,…
On Sept. 22, 2005, the Siteman Cancer Center opened a new center at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital. The…
On Sept. 16, 2005, preliminary results from a large, clinical trial of digital vs. film mammography showed no…
On Sept. 12, 2005, David H. Murdock announced a $1.5 billion scientific and economic revitalization project called the…
On Jul. 13, 2005, The Life Sciences Discovery Fund Authority (LSDF) was established and a total of $350…
On Jun 8, 2005, Dr. Andras Nagy at Mount Sinai Hospital announced Canada’s first human embryonic stem cell…
On May 1, 2005, The Wayne State University Karmanos Cancer Institute announced it had acquired its clinical facilities…
On Apr. 27, 2005, results from two large National Cancer Institute sponsored randomized clinical trials showed that patients…
On Apr. 25, 2005, the combination of the targeted agent trastuzumab (Herceptin) and standard chemotherapy cuts the risk…
On Apr. 22, 2005, Sanofi Pasteur announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted licensure to…
On Apr. 8, 2005, Moores Cancer Center (MCC) at University of California, San Diego opened its new consolidated…
On Feb. 11, 2005, Autism Speaks was founded in New York City by Bob and Suzanne Wright, grandparents…
In Jan. 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation of paclitaxel (Abraxane)…
In 2005, The Center for Drug Discovery was established at the University of Georgia to fulfill a critical…
In 2005, the Penn Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) was established as a collaborative multi-disciplinary group of basic and translational…
On Dec. 26, 2004, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assisted with an earthquake measuring…
On Dec. 10, 2004, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) supported study determined that a new molecular test done…
In Dec. 2004, David H. Murdock purchased the former Cannon Mills site at auction, future home of the…
On Sept. 29, 2004, a team from scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oregon Health &…
On Sept. 22, 2004, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) opened the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center,…
On Sept. 14, 2004, researchers at OHSU and OHSU’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute announced a collaboration with…
On Jul. 21, 2004, Project BioShield Act of 2004 was signed by President George W. Bush. The Act…
On Jun. 16, 2004, Portland’s Schnitzer Investment Corp. donated nearly 20 acres of land at the South Willamette…
On May 11, 2004, the University of Alabama Medical Center’s opened a new $13.5 million 77,000 square foot…
On Apr. 24, 2004, the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, opened its new 59,000-square-foot Bioinformatics Facility I The mission of…
Apr. 14, 2004, the National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers was established in Michigan in response to…