On Jun. 7, 2000, President Clinton issued an Executive Memorandum that directed the Medicare program to revise its…
In 2000, the Center for Clinical Sciences Research building opened, and is an example of a fully integrated…
In 2000, the Georgetown University Hospital became part of MedStar Health, a not-for-profit network of seven hospitals in…
In 2000, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research opened its doors. The Institute was founded by Jim and…
In 2000, the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority was established.
On Nov. 29, 1999, the “To Err is Human” report was published by the Institute of Medicine, a…
On Oct. 27, 1999, Hoffmann-La Roche and Gilead Sciences announced that Roche’s TAMIFLU™ (oseltamivir phosphate) has been approved…
On Oct. 12, 1999, the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) was founded in Seattle by Alan Aderem, Ruedi…
On Aug. 30, 1999, Dr. Ute Hochgeswender, Development Biology Research Program from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF)…
On Jul. 29, 1999, the University of Southern California (USC) announced that it had received a gift of…
On Jun. 30, 1999, Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority (FRA) announced that the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center had been…
In 1999, Michael Smith, recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, founded Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Science…
In 1999, the Delaware Biotechnology Institute was founded as a partnership among government, academia and industry to help…
In 1999, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Scientist-Survivor Program which united researchers with patients and survivor advocates…
On Oct. 12, 1998, Louis J. Ignarro of the University of California School of Medicine was awarded the…
On Feb. 10, 1998, the Cook County Board of Commissioners took the final steps in the approval process,…
In 1998, the Cystic Fibrosis Research Center was founded at University of Iowa’s College of Medicine. Today, the…
In 1998, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital’s new state-of-the-art pediatric medical complex was opened. Built with private funding and bond…
On Aug. 9, 1997, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a policy that allowed pharmaceutical companies…
On Jul. 1, 1997, the operations, employees and obligations of the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals (MCV), formerly…
On Feb. 13, 1997, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting and Science Innovation…
In 1997, Kurt Amplatz invented the Amplatzer Septal Occluder. The device is inserted by percutaneous catheter placement, thus…
In 1997, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research broke ground in Kansas City, MO. The Institute was founded…
In 1997, Bristol-Myers Squibb opened a 433-acre research campus in Hopewell, New Jersey. Two important new medicines co-developed…
In 1997, planning began for Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Center for Women’s Health, and an interim…
In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner (University of Pennsylvania, A.B. 1964, M.D. 1968) was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize…
In 1997, anesthesiologist Joanne Conroy, M.D. became the first woman appointed as head of the University of South…
In 1997, Dr. Leland Hartwell became the new President and Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center….
Oct. 20, 1996, the United Kingdom’s National Osteoporosis Society supported by the European Commission, announced the creation of…
In 1996, the National Research Council issued the nation’s first precollege science education standards, a blueprint for engaging…