On Jul. 10, 2017, the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute was awarded the National Cancer Institute’s premier status: Comprehensive…
On May 10, 2017, Siteman Cancer Center met the standards of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)…
On Jan. 4, 2017, Abbott announced it had completed the acquisition of St. Jude Medical, establishing the company…
On Jan. 4, 2017, Abbott announced it had completed the acquisition of St. Jude Medical for $25 billion….
On Sept. 29, 2016, University of Southern California (USC) Trustee Marc Benioff ’86 and his wife, Lynne, gifted…
On Sept. 1, 2016, the University of British Columbia (UBC) announced that researchers at UBC’s Okanagan campus had…
On Aug. 31, 2016, State Senator Pat Steadman was honored by the University of Colorado Cancer Center (CU)…
On Aug. 18, 2016, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its manufacturing facility in…
On Apr. 5, 2016, Physio-Control was acquired by Michigan-based Stryker Corp. which acquired 100% of the stock of…
On Mar. 14, 2016, Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced an agreement to acquire all of Bioject Medical Technologies’ assets including…
On Mar. 3, 2016, the University of Oregon (UO) announced receipt of a $10 million gift from Tim…
On Jul. 30, 2015, Baylor Cancer Center received comprehensive designation from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The Center…
On Jun. 29, 2015, the Life Sciences Discovery Fund Authority (LSDF) was defunded by the Washington State Legislature,…
On Jun. 26, 2015, The Keck School of Medicine announced it had established the University of Southern California…
On May 6, 2015, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National…
In 2015, Dr. Horace H. Loh received the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) Lifetime Achievement Award…
In 2015, the California Life Sciences Association was founded. (CLSA) was founded when the Bay Area Bioscience Association…
On Oct. 13, 2014, the University of Minnesota’s Children’s Hospital was renamed the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s…
On Mar. 25, 2014, the University of Minnesota Foundation announced that Caroline Amplatz had made early fulfillment of…
On Jan. 13, 2014, Gary K. Michelson, a retired orthopaedic spinal surgeon whose groundbreaking work generated more than…
On Jan. 9, 2014, the New York Genome Center (NYGC) announced that New York State Governor Andrew M….
In 2014, the Institute for Applied Life Sciences ﾠ(IALS) was founded at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with…
In 2014, Siteman Cancer Center performed the world’s first MRI-guided radiation therapy treatment, allowing for visualized and adaptable…
On Dec. 19, 2013, the Siteman Cancer Center debuted the first single-vault proton therapy center in the U.S.:…
On Jul. 23, 2013, Matrical Bioscience announced it has had been acquired by Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based Brooks Automation for…
On Jun. 25, 2013, NanoString Technologies launched an initial public offering at $10.00 per share and raised $54…
On Jan. 4, 2013, Sanford Health announced the acquisition of Sioux Falls-based biotech company Hematech, a subsidiary of…
On Sept. 19, 2012, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland announced that it had received a…
On Jul. 31, 2012, the Connecticut Development Authority (CDA) was merged into Connecticut Innovations (CI) which was created…
On Mar. 29, 2012, Siemens, now Sivantos, introduced Eclipse , an ultra discreet completely-in-the-canal hearing instrument. The history…