In 2012, The UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center received NCI comprehensive cancer designation. The center is a matrix…
In 2012, the Basser Center for BRCA was established at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center to establish a…
On Dec. 14, 2011, Patricia M. LoRusso, D.O., of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan;…
On Sept. 2, 2011, the Monroe Cancer Center opened as a joint venture between Karmanos Cancer Institute, Mercy…
On Aug. 25, 2011, the National survey indicated HPV vaccine rates trail other teen vaccines. About 6 million…
On Aug. 16, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved vemurafenib tablets (Zelboraf, Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc.) for…
On Aug. 9, 2011, the Siteman Cancer Center announced that it had performed its 5,000th bone marrow transplant,…
On Jun. 28, 2011, to prevent extinction of the Tasmanian tiger, a team of scientists led by the…
On Apr. 21, 2011, Jon M. and Karen Huntsman donated $41 million to cancer research at Huntsman Cancer…
On Feb. 22, 2011, Foster City, California-based Gilead Sciences and Calistoga Pharmaceuticals announced Gilead’s acquisition of Calistoga for…
On Dec. 22, 2010, the FDA approved Gardasil HPV vaccine to include the indication for the prevention of…
On Nov. 30, 2010, Jane and Lee Seidman have donated $42 million to University Hospitals (UH) – the…
On Oct. 29, 2010, The Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research…
On Jul. 7, 2010 the Radiation Exposure Compensation Amendments of 1999 (P.L. 106-245) was passed by the U.S….
On Mar. 5, 2010, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that it had awarded the Siteman Cancer Center…
On Jan. 25, 2010, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine launched a $65…
In 2010, the Pacific Health Research & Education Institute (PHREI) became the successor-in-interest to Pacific Health Research Institute….
On Oct. 26, 2009, the Smilow Cancer Hospital opened for patient care with María Rosa Menocal, a Yale…
On Oct. 16, 2009, GlaxoSmithKline announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Cervarix [Human papillomavirus…
On Oct. 16, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new indication for gardasil to prevent…
On Sept. 27, 2009, University of Toronto researchers announced that they had used nanomaterials to develop a microchip…
On Sept. 16, 2009, Brian J. Druker, M.D.,whose research led to the development of Gleevec, the first targeted…
On Jul. 15, 2009, Pfizer with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and the Ontario Cancer Institute…
On April 29, 2009, the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University received its National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation….
In Apr. 2009, the Winship Cancer Institute was designated a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center, the first medical…
On Jan. 20, 2009, the Knight Cancer Institute announced the recruitment of surgeon Chris Amling, M.D., chief of…
On Aug. 3, 2009, Researchers at Stanford’s School of Medicine announced they had identified the first human bladder…
In 2009, The University of New Mexico Cancer Center opened its new state-of-the-art cancer treatment and research facility….
On Nov. 5, 2008, Siteman Cancer Center and The Genome Center researchers Timothy J. Ley, MD, Elaine Mardis,…
On Oct. 29, 2008, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced that Nike founder Philip H. Knight and…