On Sept. 19, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Jordan had become the first country in…
On Mar. 13, 2024, the National Science Board (NSB) published The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2024,…
On Jun. 29, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Roctavian, an adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapy…
On Mar. 13, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved Acadia Pharmaceuticals’…
On Apr. 26, 2021, Moderna announced that it had entered into an agreement with Sanofi for fill/finish sterile…
On Nov. 23, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’s Oxlumo (lumasiran) as the…
On Sept. 30, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced funding of a nationwide study to discover…
On Apr. 13, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that given the increased demand for…
On Mar. 31, 2020, researchers at the National Institutes of Health announced they had discovered a second gene…
On Aug. 15, 2019, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) announced that it was awarded…
On Feb. 25, 2019, the Tyrosinemia Society (TS, Inc.) was founded by Dr. Elizabeth Barnby, a researcher and…
On Aug. 15, 2017, the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program awarded…
On Jun. 17, 2014, Grifols opened state-of-the-art North Fractionation Facility (NFF) in Clayton, NC, where production capacity of…
ON May 16, 2012, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution (S. Res. 286) recognizing May 16, 2012,…
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On Sept. 24, 2007, David H. Murdock donated $35 million to Duke University to fund the Measurement to…
In 2001, the Stephenson Cancer Center was established. Located on the University of Oklahoma (OU) Health Sciences Center…
On Oct. 25, 1996, the first gene therapy trial for patients with Hunter syndrome was begun at the…
In 1987, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced revised regulations regarding Expanded Access (EA) to investigational…
On Jan. 3, 1983, the Orphan Drug Act was passed by the U.S. Congress with the leadership of…
On Jun. 5, 1981, Dr. Michael Gottlieb and colleagues of University of California at Los Angeles reported a…
In 1976, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was involved in a national immunization program…
In 1963, Australian pathologist R.D.K. Reye first described this syndrome. National surveillance led to strict warnings regarding aspirin…
On Jan. 12, 1961, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) established the Laboratory of Viral Oncology, a new intramural…
In 1959, Johnson ﾠ&ﾠ Johnson acquired McNeil Laboratories giving the Company a significant presence in the growing field…
In 1940, the U.S. government established a national blood collection program. That same year the National Research Council…