On Jul. 8, 2003, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to U.S. outbreak of…
On Jul. 2, 2003, Invitrogen bought Molecular Probes for $325 million in cash. The company became part of…
In Jul. 2003, HB 3613 was passed in the Oregon State Legislature and enacted a mandate for the…
In July 2003, University of Saskatchewan researchers announced they had discovered “follicular waves” in the human menstrual cycle….
On Jun. 20, 2003, NanoString Technologies was incorporated in Seattle as a spin-off from the Institute for Systems…
On Jun. 5, 2003, data from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial gave fresh insight…
On May 30, 2003, the Attorney General of California consented to the sale of the assets of the…
On Apr. 27, 2003, Stanford researchers found that Wnt genes, first discovered as critical genes in cancer, are…
On Apr. 23, 2003, Dr. Vincent Poitout at the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation (PNRF) won the Thomas R….
On Apr. 15, 2003, the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLB) announced a $37 million trial, coordinated by…
On Apr. 14, 2003, researchers at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science Centre in Vancouver announced they had sequenced…
On Apr. 14, 2003, The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, led in the U.S. the National Human Genome…
On Apr. 2, 2003, the Virginia Mason Research Center, located in Seattle, was renamed Benaroya Research Institute at…
On Mar. 18, 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was placed on U.S. quarantine list. Persons under quarantine…
On Mar. 4, 2003, Beth Israel Deaconess researchers pinpointed the source of preeclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy….
On Mar. 6, 2003, the Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO), announced they…
At t he end of February 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)…
In 2003, public health officials reported the re-emergence of H5N1 avian influenza for the first time since an…
In 2003, The Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) was founded as an Army-sponsored University Affiliated Research Center (UARC)….
In 2003, the Medical University of South Carolina and Clemson University established a joint Bioengineering Program. Located on…
In 2003, Dr. William Hagopian at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute began Phase I of the hOKT3 study….
On Dec. 12, 2002, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that a clinical trial had shown that reducing…
On Dec. 1, 202, Sidney Kimmel, founder and chairman of Jones Apparel Group, donated $150 million for cancer…
On Oct. 29, 2002, an international research consortium launched a $100 million public-private effort to create the next…
On Oct. 16, 2002, patterns of proteins found in patients’ blood may help distinguish between prostate cancer and…
On Jul. 2, 2002, the University of California, Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center announced it had received National Cancer…
On Jun. 24, 2002, researchers at the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute (SCI) announced they had found…
On Jun. 21, 2002, all 53 Member States in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region were certified…
On Jun. 19, 2002, National Cancer Institute (NCI) scientists used microarray technology to determine the patterns of genes…
On Jun. 12, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response…