On Sept. 10, 2012, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced winners of the annual Lasker Awards: Michael…
On Sept. 10, 2012, Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) announced the estate of Garthe and Grace Brown designated…
On Jul. 12, 2012 the University of Kansas Cancer Center earned National Cancer Institute designation. Through efforts initially…
On Mar. 27, 2012, the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU dedicated a new home for its…
On Jun. 24, 2012, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Alice Cooper helped raise $675,500 for the…
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 Oct. 13, 2011, the OHSU/OSU Collaborative Life Sciences Building (CLSB) broke ground on the new $295 million…
On Sept. 27, 2011, the Mayo Clinic announced a $120 million plan to open its first medical school…
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…
On Apr. 21, 2011, Governor Mary Fallin dedicated the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s (OMRF) new 186,000 s.f. research…
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) purchased Norris Cancer Hospital and University Hospital (now…
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…
On Apr. 18, 2008, the Claude Moore Health Education and Research Center opened in Northern Virginia and houses…
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…