On Feb. 3, 2026, Governor Pritzker announced the State of Illinois is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO)…
On Jan. 12, 2026, AbbVie announced a voluntary agreement with the Trump administration to further advance access and…
On Jan. 12, 2026, AbbVie and West Pharmaceutical Services announced a definitive agreement for AbbVie to acquire a…
On Jan. 5, 2026, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a groundbreaking new tool that…
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On Dec. 18, 2025, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem revealed that bacteriophages use a small RNA…
On Dec. 2, 2025, a Northwestern Medicine led study provided the first side-by-side comparison of how three major…
On Aug. 25, 2025, AbbVie and Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals announced a definitive agreement under which AbbVie will acquire Gilgamesh’s…
On Aug. 12, 2025, AbbVie announced a $195 million investment in its North Chicago, Illinois manufacturing plant to…
On Jul. 30, 2025, a study led by Northwestern Medicine shows that most U.S. adults have a “heart…
On Jul. 11, 2025, findings from Northwestern University study show the brain protein tied to CTE is not…
On Jun. 18, 2025, federal health officials announced a listeria food poisoning outbreak that has killed three people…
On Apr. 16, 2025, The Sabin Vaccine Institute announces the launch of a multi-site Phase 2 clinical trial…
On Aug. 28, 2024, Northwestern University and University of Texas-Southwestern announced results of a study that found bacterial…
On Jul. 6, 2023, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers reported they can detect exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus…
On May 11, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the supplemental approval of Otsuka Pharmaceutical…
On Mar. 7, 2023, Abbott announced that it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for what…
On Mar. 6, 2023, Neuromod Devices announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted De…
On Mar. 10, 2022, the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA), in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Natural…
On Mar. 11, 2021, Abbott announced the formation of the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition, a first-of-its-kind global scientific…
On Mar. 10, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it had identified additional personnel authorized…
On Nov. 8, 2020, research from the U.S. had shown that white-tailed deer were being infected with SARS-CoV-2,…
On Mar. 19, 2020, Abbott announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)…
On Oct. 22, 2019, Lundbeck, located in Valby, Denmark, announced it had completed its acquisition of Bothell, Washington-based…
On Sept. 11, 2018, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three year $1 million grant to scientists…
On Nov. 1, 2017, a study from the Earth Microbiome Project reported the most extensive snapshot ever of…
On May 23, 2017, the University of Chicago Medicine announced receipt of a $100 million donation by Craig…
On Apr. 4, 2017, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Tobin J. Marks “to recognize…
On Aug. 12, 2015, the Cephalopod Sequencing Consortium announced the first-ever sequencing of the entire octopus genome. Researchers…
On Sept. 12, 2014, the University of Iowa announced that alumnus Franklin D. Trueblood’s lifelong interest in medical…