On Sept. 29, 2003, $81 million was awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) through…
On Sept. 3, 2003, the death rates from the four most common cancers, – lung, breast, prostate, and…
On Jun. 5, 2003, data from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial gave fresh insight…
On Apr. 15, 2003, the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLB) announced a $37 million trial, coordinated by…
On Jan. 26, 2003, President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union Address, announced the Emergency…
On Dec. 12, 2002, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that a clinical trial had shown that reducing…
On Sept. 18, 2002, the National Cancer Institute launched the National Lung Screening Trial to compare two ways…
On Aug. 5, 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Richard H. Carmona as U.S. Surgeon General, one of…
On Jul. 17, 2002, a National Cancer Institute funded trial showed that postmenopausal women who used estrogen replacement…
On Jul. 3, 2002, Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., became the first woman Director of the U.S….
On Jul. 2, 2002, the University of California, Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center announced it had received National Cancer…
On Jun. 19, 2002, National Cancer Institute (NCI) scientists used microarray technology to determine the patterns of genes…
On Jun. 12, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response…
On May 14, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the Hematologic Cancer Research Investment and Education Act of…
On Jan. 22, 2002, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach became the twelfth director of the National Cancer Institute…
In 2002, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the landmark National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) to determine whether…
On Sept. 10, 2001, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the Consumer Advocates in Research and Related Activities…
On Jun. 14, 2001, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) dedicated the Louis Stokes Laboratories (Building 50), a…
In 2001, The February 16 issue of Science and February 15 issue of Nature contain the working draft…
In 2001, the Stephenson Cancer Center was established. Located on the University of Oklahoma (OU) Health Sciences Center…
In 2001, the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies in the Texas Research Park at UT health…
In 2001, human immunogenetics professor Dr. Gloria M. Dunston founded the National Human Genome Center at Howard University….
On Jul. 28, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Semipostal Authorization Act (P.L. 106-253), which gave…
In 2000, the Holden Cancer Center at University of Iowa received National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center designation. The…
On Jun. 7, 2000, President Clinton issued an Executive Memorandum that directed the Medicare program to revise its…
On May 25, 2000, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced funding of nine U.S….
On Apr. 10, 2000, the Oregon Health Science Centers (OHSU) Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology…
On Feb. 7, 1999, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was founded by five national organizations funded by the…
In 1999, ClinicalTrials.gov was founded as an Internet-based resource that provide information about clinical research studies to the…
In 1999, University of California at San Francisco Cancer Research Institute received NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center designation. The…