On Dec. 4, 2024, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced approved of AstraZeneca’s blockbuster drug Imfinzi…
On Oct. 15, 2021, Roche announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Tecentriq (atezolizumab)…
On May 21, 2021, the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Rybrevant (amivantamab-vmjw) as the first…
On Dec. 18, 2020, the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso (osimertinib) as the…
On May 6, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Tabrecta (capmatinib) for the treatment of…
On Jun. 10, 2019, the Winship Cancer Institute was awarded a five-year, $9.7 million Specialized Program of Research…
On Oct. 22, 2018, the National Cancer Institute (NC) awarded a $10.7 million five year grant to Abramson…
In 2015, Yale Cancer Center was awarded a SPORE (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence) grant for translational research…
On Sept. 2008, a narrow region on chromosome 15 contains genetic variations strongly associated with familial lung cancer,…
In 2006, the Winship Cancer Institute received a $7.9 million P01 5-year grant from the Cancer Institute (NCI)…
On Nov. 18, 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)Â announced it had approved Genentech’s drug Tarceva…
On Sept. 18, 2002, the National Cancer Institute launched the National Lung Screening Trial to compare two ways…
In 2002, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the landmark National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) to determine whether…
In 1993, the Washington University School of Medicine announced that it was a participating site for the prostate,…
On Dec. 19, 1978, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Cisplatin for use in testicular and ovarian…
In 1976, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) became the home for the National Clearinghouse…
In 1972, The Wistar Institute was designated the first National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center in basic research…
On Feb. 27, 1970, in Upjohn v. Finch the Court of Appeals upheld enforcement of the 1962 drug…
On May 27, 1950, Washington University physician Evarts A. Graham, MD, and medical student Ernst Wynder published a…
In 1939, Hugh G. Grady and Harold L. Stewart first identified the type II cell of the pulmonary…
In May 1935, Kenneth Lynch and William Atmar Smith from the Medical College of South Carolina published an…
On Apr. 4, 1933, Evarts A. Graham, MD at Washington University – St. Louis performed the world’s first…