In 2008, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance introduced the Mammovan, making digital mammography more accessible to women throughout…
On Dec. 31, 2007, the U.S. Congress passed the Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act, or…
On Dec. 19, 2007, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), a $150 million initiative, was established by the National…
On Dec. 18, 2007, World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) shines a bright light on autism as a growing…
On Dec. 12, 2007, the Breast Cancer Research Stamp Reauthorization Act extended through Dec. 31, 2011, provisions requiring…
On Dec. 6, 2007, the Cancer Therapy & Research Center became part of the UT Health Science Center…
On Nov. 27, 2007, a new National Cancer Institute (NCI) model for calculating invasive breast cancer risk, called…
On Nov. 19, 2007, the University of California at San Francisco Cancer (UCSF) Research Institute was renamed the…
On Nov. 14, 2007, researchers at OHSU’s Oregon National Primate Research Center announced they had successfully derived embryonic…
On Oct. 30, 2007, the Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJC) Institute of Health at Washington University was established, to house…
On Oct. 29, 2007, the International HapMap Consortium announced it had published an analyses of its second-generation map…
on Oct. 15, 2007, the annual report from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) showed that cancer death rates…
On Oct. 9, 2007, the Fred Hutchinson Business Alliance announced that the 2007 E. Donnall Thomas Medal of…
On Oct. 9, 2007, the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT was established with…
On Oct. 8, 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Oliver Smithies from…
On Sept. 23, 2007, the Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI) was awarded “cancer center” designation from the National Cancer…
On Sept. 15, 1997, Alain Carpentier at Hospital European Goerges Pompidou in Paris and Albert Starr at Providence…
On Sept. 14, 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved Eli Lilly’s osteoporosis…
On Aug. 24, 2007, BioLife Solutions was incorporated in Seattle. BioLife Solutions (formerly Cryomedical Sciences) is a class-defining…
On Aug. 16. 2007, surgeons at the University of Washington (UW) Medical Center performed Seattle’s first adult heart-lung…
On Aug. 2, 2007, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) became the state’s only medical center to implant…
On Jul. 15, 2007, Dr. Jim Olson and colleagues from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children’s…
On Jul. 11, 2007, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced a leadership gift of $5.5 million from…
On Jun. 14, 2007, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the 3-year pilot phase of a new program…
On Jun. 14, 2007, Hallie Ford, a noted Oregon philanthropist, made a gift of $8 million to Oregon…
On Jun. 7, 2007, years before the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, a group of about 100…
O Jun. 4, 2007, researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine announced they had illuminated the path…
On May 21, 2007, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced that Grover Bagby, M.D., after 15 years…
On May 15, 2007, the University of New Mexico Cancer Center broke ground on new state-of-the-art cancer treatment…
On Apr. 20, 2007, the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 allowed…