On Jan. 12, 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the 7.0 magnitude…
On Jan. 11, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Genentech’s tocilizumab (Actemra) for the treatment…
In 2010, The Sensory Motor Adaptive Rehabilitation Technology (SMART) Network was established by the University of Alberta to…
In 2010, the Roskamp Foundation’s governing board announced that the Roskamp Institute had changed status from a private…
In 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the ‘CDC Vital Signs’ monthly report,…
In 2010, the Pacific Health Research & Education Institute (PHREI) became the successor-in-interest to Pacific Health Research Institute….
In 2010, The Bio Nebraska, a non-profit, membership-based trade association with a diversified membership including entities from all…
On Apr. 26, 2000, Jon M. Huntsman, a billionaire industrialist, announced that he would give $125-million to a…
In 2010, the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) was founded by Unitaid. Its vision was that non-exclusive voluntary licensing…
On Nov. 11, 2009, the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute announced the appointment of William Hagopian, M.D., Ph.D.,…
On Nov. 2, 2009 Sanford Health merged with MeritCare. In 2007 the Sioux Valley Health Care System was…
On Oct. 26, 2009, the Smilow Cancer Hospital opened for patient care with MarÃa Rosa Menocal, a Yale…
On Oct. 24, 2009, President Barack Obama declared the swine flu (N1n1) outbreak a national emergency. The declaration…
On Oct. 8, 2009, Omeros Corp. launched an initial public offering at $10.00 per share and raised $62.1…
On Oct. 5, 2009, Carol W. Greider won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
On Sept. 24, 2009, the second Phase III HIV-1 vaccine trial, also known as RV144, that began in…
On Sept. 16, 2009, Brian J. Druker, M.D.,whose research led to the development of Gleevec, the first targeted…
On Jun. 17, 2009, Virginia Commonwealth University’s school of Dentistry building opened its doors. The $20 million, four-story…
On Apr. 15, 2009, a novel influenza A virus (then referred to as ‘swine origin influenza A virus’)…
On Apr. 15, 2009, infection with the new influenza A virus (then referred to as ‘swine origin influenza…
On Apr. 15, 2009, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of Washington (UW), along with…
On Apr. 1, 2009, the University of Southern California (USC) purchased Norris Cancer Hospital and University Hospital (now…
On Mar. 26, 2009, Roche completed its acquisition of Genentech for $46.8 billion pursuant to a short-form merger…
On Mar. 2, 2009, the Hollings Cancer Center was designated a Cancer Institute. National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation…
On Mar. 2, 2009, the Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) received National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation. Hollings’ mission is…
On Feb. 26, 2009, the new Scripps Research Institute’s Florida facility, comprising three state-of-the-art buildings and more than…
On Feb. 25, 2008, Oregon State University’s James Carrington, a professor of botany and plant pathology and a…
On Feb 10, 2009, Caroline Amplatz pledged $50-million to the Minnesota Medical Foundation, in Minneapolis, to support the…
On Feb. 6, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first genetically engineered animal for…
On Feb. 4, 2009, the presidents of the MGH, MIT and Harvard University announced the creation of the…