Genomic sequencing illuminated Shigella outbreaks in California
On Dec. 23, 2016, researchers at University of California (UC) Davis and California Department of Public Health announced…
On Dec. 23, 2016, researchers at University of California (UC) Davis and California Department of Public Health announced…
On Dec. 14, 2016, Medigen Vaccine Biologics (MVC) amended an existing agreement with the National Institutes of Health…
On Dec. 13, 2016, Bristol-Myers Squibb announced that it would not renew its lease at the Lake Union…
On Dec. 3, 2016, Celgene, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced the…
On Nov. 21, 2016, Novartis announced it had acquired Selexys Pharmaceuticals Corp, a Oklahoma City-based company that specialized…
On Nov. 18, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved extending the age range for use…
On Nov. 18, 2016, Washington University in St. Louis launched a bold, $25 million initiative over the next…
On Nov. 17, 2016, the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a landmark Report on Alcohol, Drugs,…
On Nov. 15, 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued guidelines for DNA splicing. The guidelines set…
On Nov. 4, 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP)…
On Nov. 1, 2016, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced the opening of the Bezos Family Immunotherapy…
On Oct. 27, 2016, Roswell Park Cancer Institute announced it had received authorization from the U.S. Food and…
On Oct, 26, 2016, a team of researchers at the University of Arizona and University of Cambridge in…
On Oct. 25, 2016, the University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative received a $210 million gift from the…
On Oct. 18, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved TECENTRIQ® (atezolizumab) for the treatment of…
On Oct. 18, 2016, the University of Oregon (UO) announced the $1 billion Phil and Penny Knight Campus…
On Oct. 13, 2016, the Cell Atlas Initiative was launched at a meeting at The Wellcome Trust in…
On Oct. 6, 2016, Washington University School of Medicine researchers announced they had sequenced the genome of the…
On Oct. 3, 2016, Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) announced that it had successfully completed the first commercial harvest…
On Sept. 29, 2016, University of Southern California (USC) Trustee Marc Benioff ’86 and his wife, Lynne, gifted…
On Sept. 27, 2016, the Region of the Americas was the first in the world to have eliminated…
On Sept. 26, 2016, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced it had received a $10…
On Sept. 22, 2016, Vanderbilt University Medical Center became the world’s first site to treat a prostate cancer…
On Sept. 21, 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced final rule requirements for submitting registration and…
On Sept. 19, 2016, Thermo Fisher announced it had completed its acquisition of FEI Company for a total…
On Sept. 14, 2016, Bayer and Monsanto announced a merger agreement whereby Bayer acquired Monsanto for USD $128…
On Sept. 13, 2016, Arbutus Biopharma announced that Dr. Michael J. Sofia, Arbutus’ Chief Scientific Officer, had been…
On Sept. 11, 2016, the University of Washington Medicine (UW) announced that a medical team became the first…
On Sept. 8, 2016, the University of Alberta received $82.5 million in infrastructure funding from the federal and…
On Sept. 6, 2016, Danaher announced a merger agreement with Cepheid pursuant to which Danaher acquired all of…