Whole Health School of Medicine to become Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
On Jun. 30, 2022, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine announces the next steps in its development, including…
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COVID-19 Wheel of Fortune
Play the COVID-19 Wheel of Fortune and see how lucky you are! You have two wheels to choose…
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Benaroya Research Institute received $11.4 million to explore link between viruses and immune system diseases
On Jun. 17, 2022, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) announced a 5-year, $11.4 million grant from…
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Food allergy associated with lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection
On Jun. 1, 2022, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that an NIH funded study had…
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) was established
On May 25, 2022, the Health and Human Services agency (HHS) announced the formal establishment of the Advanced…
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IAVI and Moderna launched first-in-Africa clinical trial of mRNA HIV vaccine development program
On May 18, 2022, Moderna and the nonprofit scientific research organization IAVI announced that the first participant screenings…
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WHO and Medicines Patent Pool announced agreement with NIH for COVID-19 health technologies
On May 12, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 Technology Access Pool and the Medicines Patent Pool…
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KPWHRI report supported value of COVID-19 drugs
On May 11, 2022, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute reported that new treatments for people at high…
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Stanford University launched $75 million brain disease initiative
On Apr. 26, 2022, Stanford University announced it was awarded a $75 million gift from Nike co-founder Phil…
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Fred Hutch and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance unite, reshaped relationship with UW Medicine
On Apr. 1, 2022, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) announced a…
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COVID-19 | HIV | NIH | Non-Profit Research | Vaccine
NIH launched clinical trial of three mRNA HIV vaccines
On Mar. 14, 2022, researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced they had…
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After more than 20 years, scientists solved the full-length structure of a Janus Kinase
On Mar. 10, 2022, Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced that after more than two decades of effort researchers…
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In a first for imaging, new microscope captured details, 3D motion of molecules in liquid
On Feb. 16, 2022, the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, announced the lab of…
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Cancer MoonShot program reignited
On Feb. 2, 2022, President Biden announced a reignition of the Cancer Moonshot, that highlighted new goals: to…
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Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg
On Jan. 26, 2022, scientists at Tufts and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute reported they were able to trigger…
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Pfizer and BioNTech published data from two studies on COVID-19 vaccine-induced antibodies ability to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
On Jan. 24, 2022, Pfizer and BioNTech announced the publication of new results from two laboratory studies demonstrating…
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Development of WRAI’s pan-coronavirus vaccine showed promise
On Dec. 28, 2021, researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland announced…
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COVID-19 heroes & Remembrance
Our Heroes and Remembrance illustration has Maurice Ralph Hilleman and John Enders, pioneering developers of common vaccines, and…
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COVID-19 roller coaster
The COVID-19 Roller Coaster is a wild ride! Strap yourself in and hold on for the ride of…
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Life-Saving Vaccines
Our Life-Saving Vaccines cartoon illustrates four invaluable vaccines that have affected human civilization throughout history from smallpox and…
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NIH researchers identified how two people controlled HIV after stopping treatment
On Oct. 29, 2021, research led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health announced they had identified…
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Oregon Health & Science University moved forward with hospital expansion
On Oct. 29, 2021, Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) board of directors approved a project to expand…
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NYU Langone Health’s Groundbreaking Transplant Offers Hope amid Organ Shortages
On Oct. 19, 2021, the first investigational transplant of a genetically engineered, nonhuman kidney to a human body…
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Athenex and Center for Cell and Gene Therapy announced allowance of first U.S. patent around CAR-NKT cell therapy
On Oct. 18, 2021, Athenex and the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine,…
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WHO bestowed posthumous award on the late Henrietta Lacks
On Oct. 13, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) honoured the late Henrietta Lacks with a WHO Director-General’s…
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University of Oxford and Oracle Cloud System helped researchers identify COVID-19 variants faster
On Sept. 20, 2021, the University of Oxford and Oracle’s Global Pathogen Analysis System announced that it was…
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NIH builds large nationwide study population of tens of thousands to support research on long-term effects of COVID-19
On Sept. 15, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded nearly $470 million to build a national…
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City of Hope trial was first to test an investigational COVID-19 vaccine in immunocompromised bone marrow transplant
On Sept. 14, 2021, City of Hope announced that it had begun enrolling patients in a Phase 2…
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Coronavirus Epidemics first hit more than 21,000 years ago
On Sept. 2 , 2021, an Oxford University Study showed that the most recent common ancestor of these…
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Monoclonal antibody treatment combo reduced hospitalization among high-risk patients with COVID-19
On Aug. 30, 2021, the Mayo Clinic reported that in an observational study the combination of casirivimab and…
