On Feb. 23, 2006, groundbreaking was held for the first building of the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC),…
On Feb. 10, 2006, Acorda Therapeutics announced an initial public offering of 5,500,000 shares of common stock at…
On Feb. 6, 2006, Sanofi pasteur announced it had delivered more H5N1 vaccine to the U.S. government including…
On Feb. 3, 2006, Rotavirus vaccine, live, oral, pentavalent (RotaTeq by Merck) was licensed for use in infants…
On Jan. 31, 2006, Dan Duncan, founder of Enterprise Partners, an energy company in Houston, announced a donation…
On Jan. 17, 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it had stopped recommending…
On Jan. 17, 2006, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) announced the development of a…
On Jan. 6, 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) advisory Committee on Immunization Practices…
In 2006, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted Dow AgroSciences the first regulatory approval for a plant-made…
In 2006, an estimated 20.8% (45.3 million) of U.S. adults were current cigarette smokers; of these, 80.1% (36.3…
In 2006, the Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz), a 501(C)(3) non profit, was initiated by the three statewide CEO…
In 2006, Andrew Fire of Stanford Univeristy School of Medicine was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology…
In 2006, San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine was established as a California non-profit corporation and a 501(c)(3)…
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In 2006, the Winship Cancer Institute received a $7.9 million P01 5-year grant from the Cancer Institute (NCI)…
In 2006, The Indiana University Cancer Center was renamed the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center….
In 2006, the Kansas State University Biosecurity Research Institute dedicated the Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI) that was designed…
In 2006, Stealth BioTherapeutics was established as an innovative biopharmaceutical company developing therapies to treat mitochondrial dysfunction associated…
In 2006, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) celebrated it’s 60th anniversary. More than 600 people gathered to…
In 2006, the South Dakota Biotech Association was founded as a non-profit organization dedicated to developing biotechnology through…
In 2006, Texas Biomed researchers published a genetic linkage map for the rhesus monkey. In 1999, Texas Biomed…
In 2006, Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center officially opened. The center was constructed with a grant of…
In 2006, Calistoga Pharmaceuticals was founded as a Seattle-based spin-off from ICOS Corp. that was dedicated to developing…
In 2006, the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) was founded as an international research collaboration that tracks the global…
On Dec. 30, 2005, The NASA Food Technology Commercial Space Center (FTCSC) at Iowa State University closed with…
On Dec. 23, 2005, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices…
On Dec. 19, 2005, in a 2-year legal battle over the U.S. military’s anthrax vaccination program, the Food…
On Dec. 15, 2005, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) announced the completion of its acquisition of San Diego, CA…
On Dec. 12, 2005, the U.S. Congress approved the passage of the Food Allergy Labeling and Consumer Protection…
On Nov. 11, 2005, the U.S. Congress authorized the 2-year extension of Postage Stamp for Breast Cancer Research…