In Jun. 2002, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on developing earlier diagnostics…
On May 14, 2002, the International Genomics Consortium (IGC) selected Phoenix for its headquarters. The mission of the…
In May 2002, Governor Hull signed SB 1270 for $5 million over 10 years for genomic research. Later…
On Feb. 7, 2002, an assembly of more than fifty leaders and visionaries in science, medicine, government and…
On Nov. 19, 2001, researchers at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford announced they had identified a novel…
On May 24, 2001, Dr. Eldon Jupe and a team of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) researchers found…
On Apr. 24, 2001, Genome Canada announced $136 million in funding to support 22 large-scale research projects and…
In 2001, The February 16 issue of Science and February 15 issue of Nature contain the working draft…
On Jan. 11, 2001, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) researchers reported the production of the world’s first genetically…
On Jan. 10, 2001, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and University of Vermont researchers produced a clone of…
In 2001, human immunogenetics professor Dr. Gloria M. Dunston founded the National Human Genome Center at Howard University….
On Aug. 22, 2000, researchers in Kenya announced they had field-tested twelve lines of sweetpotato variety CPT 560…
On Jul. 31, 2000, Genome British Columbia was founded as one of six Genome Canada centres across the…
On Jul. 11, 2000, Stanford researchers announced they had identified a substance commonly added to toothpaste to prevent…
In 2000, the Capillary electrophoresis DNA sequencer device was developed by Dr. Edward Yeung at Iowa State University….
In 2000, University of Minnesota research team led by Vivek Kapur announced they had completed the sequencing of…
In 2000, the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI), later known as the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, opened its…
On Dec. 13, 1999, the University of Washington (UW) announced that Dr. Leroy Hood, chair of the Department…
On Dec. 2, 1999, an international team of researchers at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge, England; University of…
On Sept. 30, 1999, the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, named for Marin County philanthropists Leonard and…
In 1999, Michael Smith, recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, founded Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science…
On Oct. 30, 1999, Livermore National Lab work completed work on the mouse genome as part of Laboratory…
In 1998, Rainbow papaya seed, a transgenic virus-resistant variety, were released to farmers, allowing farmers to cultivate this…
In 1998, Yale Cancer Center researchers discovered the gene, Survivin, which is linked to the detection of some…
On Nov. 11, 1997, the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights was adopted unanimously and…
On Feb. 13, 1997, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting and Science Innovation…
In 1997, the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP), created by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is a multi-year…
In 1996, deCODE genetics was funded in Reykjavik, Iceland. deCODE is a global leader in analyzing and understanding…
In 1996, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched PulseNet, a national network of laboratories,…
In Oct. 1995, 70 scientists from 20 countries met in Lexington, Kentucky to make a plan for mapping…