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. 24, 2003, results of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT), testing the effectiveness of finasteride to…
On Jun. 20, 2003, NanoString Technologies was incorporated in Seattle as a spin-off from the Institute for Systems…
On Jun. 20, 2003, Genentech drug Xolair (omalizumab) was approved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration…
On Jun. 17, 2003, the first nasally administered influenza vaccine (FluMist by MedImmune) was licensed. This live influenza…
On Jun. 16, 2003, researchers at Stanford University Medical Center announced they found that a drug commonly prescribed…
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 May 28, 2003, the world’s first cloned horse named Prometea was born at the Laboratory of Reproductive…
On May 22, 2003, Amgen announced it was relocating its cancer research division to Seattle following its acquisition…
On May 4, 2003, University of Idaho-Utah State University researchers became the first in the world to clone…
On May 1, 2003, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published, allowing…
On Apr. 27, 2003, Stanford researchers found that Wnt genes, first discovered as critical genes in cancer, are…
On Apr. 15, 2003, the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLB) announced a $37 million trial, coordinated by…
On Apr. 14, 2003, The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, led in the U.S. the National Human Genome…
On Apr. 14, 2003, researchers at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science Centre in Vancouver announced they had sequenced…
On Apr. 7, 2003, the National Academy of Sciences released “Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food,” a report…
On Apr. 2, 2003, the Virginia Mason Research Center, located in Seattle, was renamed Benaroya Research Institute at…
On Apr. 1, 2003, the birth of a cloned banteng from a surrogate mother cow was announced by…
On Mar. 24, 2003, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Edwin J. Vandenberg “to recognize…
On Mar. 24, 2003, the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University announced it had received a $10 million…
On Mar. 18, 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was placed on U.S. quarantine list. Persons under quarantine…
On Mar. 5, 2003, taking daily aspirin for as little as 3 years was shown to reduce the…
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…
On February 24 2003, VaxGen announced that AIDSVAX B/B did not prove effective in the trials conducted in…
At t he end of February 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)…
On Feb. 14, 2003, a CT scan was performed on Dolly and it was determined that tumours were…
On Jan. 26, 2003, President Bush, in his State of the Union Address, announced the Emergency Plan for…