On Nov. 11, 2005, the U.S. Congress authorized the 2-year extension of Postage Stamp for Breast Cancer Research…
On Nov. 7, 2005, the National Cancer Institute launched a cancer biorepository pilot project designed to standardize biospecimen…
On Oct. 30, 2005, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced three grants totaling $258.3 million for advanced…
On Oct. 7, 2005, a new Federal Medicare rule became effective that required all long-term care facilities to…
On Oct. 5, 2005, the National Cancer Institute’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer,…
On Sept. 22, 2005, the Siteman Cancer Center opened a new center at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital. The…
On Sept. 12, 2005, David H. Murdock announced a $1.5 billion scientific and economic revitalization project called the…
On Aug. 18, 2005, the Medically Fragile Children’s Program was established at the Medical University of South Carolina…
On Jul. 13, 2005, The Life Sciences Discovery Fund Authority (LSDF) was established and a total of $350…
On Jun. 8, 2005, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s Sir Alexander Fleming scholar program celebrated it’s 50th class…
On May 1, 2005, The Wayne State University Karmanos Cancer Institute announced it had acquired its clinical facilities…
On Apr. 8, 2005, Moores Cancer Center (MCC) at University of California, San Diego opened its new consolidated…
In Jan. 2005, the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) was established at Penn’s Perelman School of…
In 2005, the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) was founded as a joint initiative between the Government of…
In 2005, the Penn Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) was established as a collaborative multi-disciplinary group of basic and translational…
In 2005, Dr. Michael Mulligan from the University of Washington performed Seattle Cancer Care Alliance’s (SCCA) first video-assisted…
In 2005, Genome Alberta, was established in partnership with Genome Canada Industry Canada and the Province of Alberta,…
In Dec. 2004, TGen and IGC moved into their new state-of-the-art headquarters. The six-story, $46 million building forms…
In Dec. 2004, David H. Murdock purchased the former Cannon Mills site at auction, future home of the…
On Nov. 1, 2004, an Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) research team announced that it was one…
In Oct. of 2004, the Hotchkiss Brain Institute was launched under the leadership of Dr. Samuel Weiss with…
On Sept. 29, 2004, a team from scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oregon Health &…
On Sept. 22, 2004, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) opened the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center,…
On Sept. 14, 2004, researchers at OHSU and OHSU’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute announced a collaboration with…
On Sept. 13, 2004, the National Cancer Institute announced the Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, a 5-year initiative…
On Jun. 26, 2004, the 8th and final report of the Immunization Safety Review Committee was issued by…
On Jun. 16, 2004, Portland’s Schnitzer Investment Corp. donated nearly 20 acres of land at the South Willamette…
On May 25, 2004, researchers at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) and the Oregon National Primate…
On May 11, 2004, the University of Alabama Medical Center’s opened a new $13.5 million 77,000 square foot…
Apr. 14, 2004, the National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers was established in Michigan in response to…