On Sept. 20, 2017, resarchers at deCODE genetics use whole-genome data from 14,000 people from across the population…
On Aug. 15, 2017, the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program awarded…
On Aug. 1, 2017, Achieve Life Sciences announced it had merged with OncoGenex and was renamed Achieve Life…
On Jul. 10, 2017, the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute was awarded the National Cancer Institute’s premier status: Comprehensive…
On Jun. 30, 2017, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Food and Drug…
On Jun. 21, 2017, McDonnell Genome Institute announced it had received a $10 million from the National Heart,…
On Jun. 15, 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the nations’s updated Pandemic…
On May 24, 2017, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded $24 million to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center…
On May 23, 2017, the University of Chicago Medicine announced receipt of a $100 million donation by Craig…
On May 15, 2017, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University earned the prestigious comprehensive cancer center designation from…
On April 26, 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announced that the New World screwworm (NWS) had…
On Apr. 26, 2017, the University of Virginia Cancer Center was honored as one of just 69 National…
On Mar. 31, 2017, more than 300 million people are now living with depression, which is the leading…
On Mar. 30, 2017, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced that the Bezos family had donated $35…
On Mar. 25, 2017, University of Alberta researchers announced they had discovered the protein Rab32 in the brains…
On Mar. 3, 2017, Siteman Cancer Center launched the Siteman Cancer Network to improve the health of individuals…
On Feb. 16, 2017, the new Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center began welcoming patients. The 377,000-square-foot facility, estimated…
On Jan. 23, 2017, Jeffrey and Patricia Cole donated $2.25 million to Cleveland Clinic Florida Tomsich Health and…
On Jan. 9, 2017, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) awarded $6 million for Canada’s national metabolomics laboratory,…
On Jan. 4, 2017, Abbott announced it had completed the acquisition of St. Jude Medical, establishing the company…
In 2017, Virginia Tech veterinary pathologist Kevin Lahmers identified the Asian longhorned tick as the source of seven…
On Dec. 23, 2016, researchers at University of California (UC) Davis and California Department of Public Health announced…
On Dec. 3, 2016, Celgene, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced the…
On Nov. 21, 2016, Novartis announced it had acquired Selexys Pharmaceuticals Corp, a Oklahoma City-based company that specialized…
On Nov. 17, 2016, the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a landmark Report on Alcohol, Drugs,…
On Oct. 13, 2016, the Cell Atlas Initiative was launched at a meeting at The Wellcome Trust in…
On Oct. 6, 2016, Washington University School of Medicine researchers announced they had sequenced the genome of the…
On Sept. 21, 2016, the University of California, Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Stanford University joined forces in…
On Sept. 19, 2016, Thermo Fisher announced it had completed its acquisition of FEI Company for a total…
On Aug. 31, 2016, State Senator Pat Steadman was honored by the University of Colorado Cancer Center (CU)…