On May 20, 2011, Sandia and supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. announced they had signed a cooperative research and…
On May 6, 2011, Sandia announced a novel super-resolution microscopy technique that is providing new answers to old…
On Apr. 30, 2011, The University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital opened a new, innovative building for mothers…
On Apr. 21, 2011, Jon M. and Karen Huntsman donated $41 million to cancer research at Huntsman Cancer…
On Feb. 15, 2011, Sanofi-aventis announced it would acquired Genzyme for $74 a share in cash or $21.1…
On Feb. 9, 2011, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) celebrated the official opening of the Ray…
On Feb. 7, 2011, Danaher Corp. announced a merger agreement with Beckman Coulter whereby Danaher acquired Beckman by…
On Jan. 31, 2011, the first international collaboration on Alzheimer’s disease genetics was launched. The International Genomics of…
On Jan. 3, 2011, the Belly Button Biodiversity project was launched to investigate the microbes inhabiting our navels…
In 2011, Precipio was founded in New Haven, Connecticut to build a platform designed to eradicate the problem…
On Nov. 30, 2010, Jane and Lee Seidman have donated $42 million to University Hospitals (UH) – the…
On Oct. 28, 2010, Emergent BioSolutions announced it had completed the acquisition of Seatte-based Trubion Pharmaceutical for upfront…
On Sept. 13, 2010, an international consortium published the largest survey of human genetic variation thus far: a…
On Aug. 25, 2010, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced a $5 million grant from the Walter…
On Jul. 7, 2010 the Radiation Exposure Compensation Amendments of 1999 (P.L. 106-245) was passed by the U.S….
On Jun. 30, 2010, SonoSite acquired VisualSonics, a Toronto-based company focused on ultra high-frequency micro-ultrasound technology, for $67.9…
On May 25, 2010, the consolidated Dorris Neuroscience Center was dedicated at the Scripps Research Institute. Helen Dorris,…
On May 21, 2010, The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, also known as the Cleveland Clinic Lou…
On May 7, 2010, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) biologists and informatics experts announced the Lawrence Livermore Microbial…
On Apr. 29, 2010, Stanford University of researchers announced they had have used a healthy person’s complete genome…
On Apr. 10, 2010, Genentech opened its $400 million manufacturing center in Hillsboro, Oregon. The 75-acre property campus…
On Mar. 5, 2010, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that it had awarded the Siteman Cancer Center…
On Jan. 12, 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the 7.0 magnitude…
In 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the ‘CDC Vital Signs’ monthly report,…
On Apr. 26, 2000, Jon M. Huntsman, a billionaire industrialist, announced that he would give $125-million to a…
On Nov. 11, 2009, the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute announced the appointment of William Hagopian, M.D., Ph.D.,…
On Oct. 26, 2009, the Smilow Cancer Hospital opened for patient care with MarÃa Rosa Menocal, a Yale…
On Oct. 24, 2009, President Barack Obama declared the swine flu (N1n1) outbreak a national emergency. The declaration…
On Oct. 7, 2009, the Nobel Foundation announced that Ada E. Yonath had won a share of the…
On Sept. 1, 2009, Confirma was acquired by Milwaukee, WI-based Merge Healthcare in an all-stock transaction valued at…