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 Fred Hutchinson Business Alliance announced that the 2007 E. Donnall Thomas Medal of…
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 Aug. 20, 2007, researchers from Stanford University announced they had identified a pattern of gene expression shared…
On May 21, 2007, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced that Grover Bagby, M.D., after 15 years…
On Jan. 3, 2007, Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger, then Carilion Clinic President and CEO Edward G….
In 2007, researchers at Livermore National Laboratory announced they had developed candidate signatures for pathogens that might be…
On Feb. 23, 2006, groundbreaking was held for the first building of the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC),…
On Jan. 31, 2006, Dan Duncan, founder of Enterprise Partners, an energy company in Houston, announced a donation…
In 2006, Andrew Fire of Stanford Univeristy School of Medicine was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology…
In 2006, San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine was established as a California non-profit corporation and a 501(c)(3)…
In 2006, Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center officially opened. The center was constructed with a grant of…
In 2006, the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) was founded as an international research collaboration that tracks the global…
On Sept. 12, 2005, David H. Murdock announced a $1.5 billion scientific and economic revitalization project called the…
On Jul. 16, 2005, Virginia Mason Medical Center opened an expanded Center for Hyperbaric Medicine on Seattle’s First…
On Jun. 8, 2005, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s Sir Alexander Fleming scholar program celebrated it’s 50th class…
In 2005, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was formally established following the passage of Proposition 71…
In 2005, Dr. Michael Mulligan from the University of Washington performed Seattle Cancer Care Alliance’s (SCCA) first video-assisted…
In Dec. 2004, David H. Murdock purchased the former Cannon Mills site at auction, future home of the…
On Oct. 4, 2004, the Nobel Assembly announced the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…