In August 2001, the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center was named an National Cancer Institute (NCI) -Designated Cancer…
On Jul. 24, 2001, the largest-ever prostate cancer prevention study was launched by the National Cancer Institute and…
On May 10, 2001, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gleevec, the world’s first targeted cancer…
On May 5, 2001, molecular biologist Shirley M. Tilghman was elected the first woman president of Princeton University….
On Apr. 24, 2001, Genome Canada announced $136 million in funding to support 22 large-scale research projects and…
On Jan. 11, 2001, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) researchers reported the production of the world’s first genetically…
In 2001, the drug imatinib mesylate (Gleevec) was shown in a clinical trial to be effective against chronic…
In 1978, Moores Cancer Center (MCC) at UC San Diego achieved National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated comprehensive cancer…
In 2001, K. Barry Sharpless, of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, was awarded the Nobel…
In 2001, Iowa College of Medicine was renamed for Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver in recognition of…
In 2001, The J.P. McCarthy Cord Stem Cell Bank at the Karmanos Cancer Institute was founded as a…
In 2001, the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, now known as the Masonic Cancer Center, was founded. It…
In 2001, the Northwest Lions Eye Bank merged with the Montana Eye Bank. SightLife, based in Washington state,…
In 2001, the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and Neurological Sciences Institute…
In 2001, human immunogenetics professor Dr. Gloria M. Dunston founded the National Human Genome Center at Howard University….
On Jul. 31, 2000, Genome British Columbia was founded as one of six Genome Canada centres across the…
On Jul. 28, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Semipostal Authorization Act (P.L. 106-253), which gave…
In 2000, Fox Chase Cancer Center received Magnet Designation for Nursing Excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center….
In 2000, the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority was established.
In 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation began as the William H. Gates Foundation established in 1994,…
On Dec. 13, 1999, the University of Washington (UW) announced that Dr. Leroy Hood, chair of the Department…
On Dec. 2, 1999, an international team of researchers at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge, England; University of…
On Dec. 2, 1999, Alvin and Ruth Siteman donated $35 million to establish the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer…
On Nov. 29, 1999, the “To Err is Human” report was published by the Institute of Medicine, a…
On Nov. 23, 1999, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged a gift of $750 million over five…
On Oct. 12, 1999, the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) was founded in Seattle by Alan Aderem, Ruedi…
On Sept. 30, 1999, the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, named for Marin County philanthropists Leonard and…
On Sept. 1, 1999, Princeton University researchers reported that they had genetically modified mice to have improved learning…
In Jul. 1999, the Biotechnology Industry Organization held BIO’99 in Seattle and the event attracted more than 5,700…
On Jun. 30, 1999, Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority (FRA) announced that the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center had been…