On Apr. 2, 2025, A team of Northwestern University scientists spanning disciplines announced they have developed new technology…
On Feb. 21, 2025, a team of researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) announced a hybrid custom-designed…
On Jan. 15, 2025, officials from Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago reported that testing had confirmed the highly pathogenic…
On Dec. 26, 2024, the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) announced it is alerting pet owners that samples…
On Nov. 27, 2024, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced they had developed a nanorobotic hand…
On Mar. 13, 2024, an unassuming brown bovine from the south of Brazil has made history as the…
On Nov. 24, 2020, Northwestern University researchers announced they had developed a new artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform that…
On Apr. 8, 2020, Vanda Pharmaceuticals and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) announced a research partnership…
On Jan. 27, 2020, the Jackson Laboratory announced it was one of the founding partners of the Roux…
On Nov. 1, 2017, a study from the Earth Microbiome Project reported the most extensive snapshot ever of…
On Aug. 12, 2015, the Cephalopod Sequencing Consortium announced the first-ever sequencing of the entire octopus genome. Researchers…
On Jan. 12, 2015, The Albert Einstein Cancer Center became the only medical institution in New York City,…
In 2010, the Roskamp Foundation’s governing board announced that the Roskamp Institute had changed status from a private…
On Nov. 2, 2009, an international consortium lead by Larry Schook at the University of Illinois in Champaign…
In 2003, the Roskamp Institute, located in Sarasota, was founded by Robert Roskamp a philanthropist and Sarasota-based developer…
In February 2002, the doors opened to the John Stroger Hospital of Cook County, a new state-of-the-art, 464-bed,…
In 2001, the American Chemical Society (ACS) awarded the Priestley Medal to Fred Basolo “to recognize distinguished services…
On Feb. 10, 1998, the Cook County Board of Commissioners took the final steps in the approval process,…
In 1998, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Dale proclaimed November “National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month” in Chicago. The National Sarcoidosis…
In 1997, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University received its National Cance Institute ‘comprehensive’…
In 1995, the National Sarcoidosis Society was founded because of a lack of educational awareness information on this…
In 1993, Cook County Hospital’s HIV/AIDS clinic was re-named the Sable/Sherer Clinic. The clinic treated one-third of Cook…
In 1991, The Northwestern University Cancer Center was dedicated through an endowment gift from Ann and Robert H….
In 1983, the the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Robert S. Mulliken ‘for his numerous…
In 1974, the Northwestern University Cancer Center was founded. Now known as the Lurie Cancer Center, it is…
In 1973, Dr. Boone Chunprapah at the Cook County Hospital I Chicago became the first doctor to successfully…
In 1972, Cook County Hospital became the first hospital to use an all frozen blood banking system. This…
In 1964, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to John C. Bailar, Jr. “to recognize distinguished…
In 1964, Cook County Hospital’s Hektoen Institute opened in the former John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases, on…
In 1964, the construction of the first McArdle building resulted from a bequest by Michael W. McArdle, a…