In 2015, the California Life Sciences Association was founded. (CLSA) was founded when the Bay Area Bioscience Association…
In 2015, Yale Cancer Center was awarded a SPORE (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence) grant for translational research…
On Feb. 27, 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the West Africa…
In 2015, the state of Alaska Department of Health announced they had identified Alaskapox virus in a patient…
On Dec. 23, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a formulation of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug, liraglutide,…
On Dec. 23, 2014, Juno Therapeutics announced the closing of its initial public offering of 12.7 million shares…
On Dec. 22, 2014, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved RAPIVAB (peramivir…
On Dec. 18, 2014, the University of Nebraska Medical Center announced it had received a $1.3 million gift…
On Dec. 11, 2014, Dr. Andras Nagy, from the University of Toronto and leader of Project Grandiose, announced…
On Dec. 8, 2014, philanthropist and entrepreneur Paul G. Allen announced a commitment of $100 million to create…
On Dec. 3, 2014, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center…
On Dec. 3, 2014, Fred Eshelman, CEO and founder of Wilmington-based PPD Inc. and a member of the…
On Nov. 27, 2014, two papers were published in Science that announced the completion and preliminary analyses of…
On Nov. 21, 2014, funding was announced for the TEC Health Accelerator for Alberta, to assist promising startup…
On Oct. 23, 2014, philanthropist Paul G. Allen donated $100 million to fight Ebola and called on the…
On Oct. 21, 2014, the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) announced that technology investor David Roux and his wife Barbara…
On Oct. 15, 2014, Genentech drug Esbriet (pirfenidone) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
On Oct. 13, 2014, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis launched the annual World Thrombosis Day World…
On Oct. 13, 2014, the University of Minnesota’s Children’s Hospital was renamed the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s…
On Oct. 13, 2014, the Nebraska Medical Center, Bellevue Medical Center and UNMC Physicians – once three separate…
On Oct. 9, 2014, a landmark study led by Douglas Melton from Harvard University successfully generated functional, mature human…
On Oct. 7, 2014, The Jackson Laboratory opened a state-of-the-art genomics research center on the campus of the…
On Oct. 3, 2014, the University of Gothenburg announced that seven Swedish women in a ground-breaking research project…
On Sept. 30, 2014, Dole Food chairman and owner David Murdock announced he wants to take his vision…
On Sept. 30, 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that Eric Duncan, a Liberian national…
On Sept. 3, 2014, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced it had been awarded a $25 million…
On Aug. 21, 2014, Mark McAndrew, a resident of McKinney, Texas, gave $2.4 million to the University of…
On Aug. 14. 2014, Genentech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Avastin (bevacizumab)…
On Aug. 5, 2014, the genome sequence of the common cat was published in GigaScience. The DNA of…
On Aug. 4, 2014, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, California Institute of Technology, New York University School…