On Feb. 14, 2018, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, (PNNL) and Oregon Health & Science University OHSU announced the…
In 2018, the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center became the 16th National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center funded with…
In 2018, the Native BioData Consortium was founded as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research institute led by Indigenous scientists…
On Dec. 13, 2017, longtime Omaha art teacher and businessman Gerald “Jerry” Pabst donated $3 million through an…
On Dec. 6, 2017, Costco Founder Jeffrey and Susan Brotman and Pam and Dan Baty announced a $50…
On Dec. 1, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Mylan’s Ogivri (trastuzumab-dkst) as a biosimilar…
On Nov. 16, 2017, the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Genentech drug Hemlibra (emicizumab-kxwh)…
On Nov. 16, 2017, Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian announced that Florence Irving and her late husband, Herbert Irving,…
On Nov. 3, 2017, construction started on the Calgary Cancer Centre located at the northeast corner of the…
On Oct. 18, 2017, the Siteman Cancer Center became one of the first cancer centers nationwide to offer…
On Sept. 20, 2017, resarchers at deCODE genetics use whole-genome data from 14,000 people from across the population…
On Aug. 24, 2017, Adamas announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of GOCOVRI as First and…
On Aug. 16, 2017, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) awarded 60 new academic research,…
On Aug. 15, 2017, the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program awarded…
On Jul. 13, 2017, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded UC Berkeley $21.6 million over four…
On Jul 6, 2017, a group led by virologist David Evans of the University of Alberta in Edmonton,…
On May 23, 2017, the University of Chicago Medicine announced receipt of a $100 million donation by Craig…
On May 19, 2017, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Immunization Practices Advisory Committee…
On May 10, 2017, Siteman Cancer Center met the standards of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)…
On May 3, 2017, the University of Pennsylvania announced plans to build a $1.5 billion new hospital on…
On Apr. 26, 2017, the University of Virginia Cancer Center was honored as one of just 69 National…
On Apr. 21, 2017, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published updated guidelines for use…
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. 19, 2017, PharmAthene and Altimmune, a privately-held immunotherapeutics company targeting infectious diseases, announced an agreement for…
In 2017, Virginia Tech veterinary pathologist Kevin Lahmers identified the Asian longhorned tick as the source of seven…
In 2017, SpringWorks Therapeutics was founded in Stamford, Connecticut, as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that applies a precision…
On Dec. 14, 2016, Medigen Vaccine Biologics (MVC) amended an existing agreement with the National Institutes of Health…
On Dec. 3, 2016, Celgene, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced the…
On Nov. 18, 2016, Washington University in St. Louis launched a bold, $25 million initiative over the next…