On Sept. 17, 2012, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland announced that it had received a…
On Sept. 10, 2012, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, which for 67 years has championed the greatest…
On Jul. 12, 2012, a decade after declaring its goal of becoming a National Cancer Institute-designated facility, the…
On Apr. 25, 2012, U.S. Representatives Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), and Robert J. Dold (R-Ill.) joined…
On Jan 1, 2012, renowned biochemist Michael A. Marletta became president and CEO of The Scripps Research Institute…
On Jan. 1, 2012 Alan Aderem, Ph.D., became president of Seattle BioMed, now known as Center for Infectious…
On Jun. 24, 2012, rock legend Alice Cooper visited the foundation to help raise funds for clinical trials…
On Oct. 13, 2011, the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) / Oregon State University (OSU) Collaborative Life…
On Sept. 27, 2011, the world-renowned Mayo Clinic announced that it is planning to open its first medical…
On Aug. 11, 2011, Genomeon was established under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia by Dr. Harold…
On Aug. 9, 2011, the Siteman Cancer Center announced that it had performed its 5,000th bone marrow transplant,…
On Apr. 30, 2011, The University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital opened a new, innovative building for mothers…
In 2011, the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute began clinical trials on antioxidant drug treatments on volunteers from…
On Jan. 12, 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the 7.0 magnitude…
On Nov. 2, 2009 Sanford Health merged with MeritCare. In 2007 the Sioux Valley Health Care System was…
On Oct. 5, 2009, Elizabeth H. Blackburn won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
On Sept. 16, 2009, Brian J. Druker, M.D.,whose research led to the development of Gleevec, the first targeted…
On Apr. 15, 2009, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of Washington (UW), along with…
On Apr. 1, 2009, the University of Southern California (USC) announced they had completed the purchase of Norris…
On Feb 10, 2009, Caroline Amplatz pledged $50-million to the Minnesota Medical Foundation, in Minneapolis, to support the…
On Jan. 20, 2009, the Knight Cancer Institute announced the recruitment of surgeon Chris Amling, M.D., chief of…
On Oct. 6, 2008, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi was awarded a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
On Jul. 15, 2008, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act extended expiring provisions under the Medicare…
On Jul. 8, 2008, Stanford researchers announced discovered a molecule that kills kidney cancer cells. Ideally, the researchers…
On Apr. 25, 2008, marked the first-ever World Malaria Day established by the United Nations to ensure that…
In 2008, the Institute for Public Health at Washington University – St. Louis was established via Siteman Cancer…
On Dec. 4, 2007, representatives of 111 countries and 29 international organizations met in New Delhi India for…
On Oct. 9, 2007, the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT was established with…
On Oct. 8, 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Oliver Smithies from…
On Sept. 15, 2007, Ralph M. Steinman at Rockefeller University received Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research…