On Dec. 8, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two milestone treatments, Casgevy and Lyfgenia, representing…
On Oct. 27, 2023, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded $42.1 million to fund various translational…
On Oct. 2, 2023, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced its approval of a new program…
On Sept. 29, 2023, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded $43.8 million to fund projects aimed…
On May 31, 2023, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded $10 million to five facilities as…
On Oct. 12, 2022, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (FHCRC) announced the Bezos family had committed $710.5 million…
On Sept. 8, 2020, a new collaboration between the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the Chan…
On Jun. 7, 2018, the Wold Foundation of Wyoming announced a gift of $2.5 million to help in…
On Dec. 11, 2014, Dr. Andras Nagy, from the University of Toronto and leader of Project Grandiose, announced…
On Oct. 9, 2014, a landmark study led by Douglas Melton from Harvard University successfully generated functional, mature human…
On May 20, 2014, Keck Medicine of USC received a $2 million gift from The Eli and Edy…
On Mar. 5, 2014, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced the creation of the Center for Embryonic…
On Feb. 28, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Immunization Practices Advisory Committee…
In 2014, the Institute for Applied Life Sciences ﾠ(IALS) was founded at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with…
On Feb. 9, 2011, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) celebrated the official opening of the Ray…
On Oct. 29, 2010, The Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research…
On Aug. 3, 2009, Researchers at Stanford’s School of Medicine announced they had identified the first human bladder…
In 2009, Dr. Andras Nagy reported the discovery of a new non-viral method of creating stem cells from…
On Oct. 8, 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it had awarded the University of Georgia…
On Nov. 14, 2007, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Oregon National Primate Research Center announced they…
O Jun. 4, 2007, researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine announced they had illuminated the path…
On Jun 8, 2005, Dr. Andras Nagy at Mount Sinai Hospital announced Canada’s first human embryonic stem cell…
On Apr. 27, 2003, Stanford researchers found that Wnt genes, first discovered as critical genes in cancer, are…
On Jun. 24, 2002, researchers at the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute (SCI) announced they had found…
In 1997, cancer stem cells were first identified in acute myelogenous leukemia. They will later be identified in…
On Oct. 2, 1996, SeaMED Corp. was founded in Redmond by Bob Berg. The company manufactured cell-production systems,…
On Aug. 26, 1991, Cellpro announced its initial public offering. CellPro, founded in Bothell, Washington, developed the CEPRATE…
On Feb. 22, 1991, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved Amgen’s two white…
In 1989, CellPro was founded in Bothell as a spin-off from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The…
In 1988, pathologist Irving Weissman from Stanford Medicine isolated a rare mouse cell, known as the hematopoetic stem…