On May 28, 2010, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request for a…
On May 25, 2010, the consolidated Dorris Neuroscience Center was dedicated at the Scripps Research Institute. Helen Dorris,…
On May 21, 2010, The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, also known as the Cleveland Clinic Lou…
In 2010, The Sensory Motor Adaptive Rehabilitation Technology (SMART) Network was established by the University of Alberta to…
In 2010, the Roskamp Foundation’s governing board announced that the Roskamp Institute had changed status from a private…
On Oct. 8, 2009, Omeros Corp. launched an initial public offering at $10.00 per share and raised $62.1…
On Oct. 5, 2009, Carol W. Greider won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
On Jul. 15, 2009, the National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research announced it was launching a…
On Dec. 18, 2007, World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) shines a bright light on autism as a growing…
O Jun. 4, 2007, researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine announced they had illuminated the path…
On Mar. 20, 2007, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) announced a five-year, $24 million…
In 2007, Nancy Wexler, PhD, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science for her discovery of the…
In 2007, Dr. Jordan Tang, led a team of scientists at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) that identified…
In 2007, the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery was established, combining the expertise of four groups of…
On Sept. 26, 2006, the Allen Institute for Brain Science announced the completion of the groundbreaking Allen Brain…
On Feb. 10, 2006, Acorda Therapeutics announced an initial public offering of 5,500,000 shares of common stock at…
On Feb. 11, 2005, Autism Speaks was founded in New York City by Bob and Suzanne Wright, grandparents…
In Oct. of 2004, the Hotchkiss Brain Institute was launched under the leadership of Dr. Samuel Weiss with…
On Aug. 24, 2004, Eli Lilly and Company launched Cymbalta (duloxetine HC), a new treatment for major depression…
On Mar. 11, 2004, The Kavli Foundation announced a $7.5 million award to establish the Kavli Institute of…
On Mar. 19, 2004, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded $7.5 million to establish The Kavli…
On Mar. 10, 2004, The Kavli Foundation announced a $7.5 million award to establish a Kavli Institute for…
On Sept. 16, 2003, The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a division of the Allen Institute, was established…
On Sept. 4, 2003, the National Center for Research Resources (NCCR) awarded a $6.7 million grant to the…
On Jun. 16, 2003, researchers at Stanford University Medical Center announced they found that a drug commonly prescribed…
On May 1, 2003, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published, allowing…
In 2003, the Roskamp Institute, located in Sarasota, was founded by Robert Roskamp a philanthropist and Sarasota-based developer…
On Dec. 16, 2002, researchers at Stanford University Medical Center announced they were continuing a multi-year clinical trial…
In 2001, the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and Neurological Sciences Institute…
On Sept. 1, 1999, Princeton University researchers reported that they had genetically modified mice to have improved learning…