On Aug. 12, 2024, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced AI@HHMI, a $500 million investment over the…
On Feb. 1, 2022, University of Virginia Cancer Center announced it had been awarded a Comprehensive Cancer Center…
On May 5, 2021, Hoth Therapeutics announced it has expanded its sponsored research agreement with Virginia Commonwealth University…
On Sept. 3, 2020, a team of Virginia Tech researchers announced that they will begin testing wastewater at…
On Apr. 26, 2017, the University of Virginia Cancer Center was honored as one of just 69 National…
On Mar. 21, 2014 the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences building opened. In the new…
On Jul. 14, 2010, the Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) received a $20 million Clinical and…
On Jun. 17, 2009, Virginia Commonwealth University’s school of Dentistry building opened its doors. The $20 million, four-story…
On Apr. 18, 2008, the Claude Moore Health Education and Research Center opened in Northern Virginia and houses…
On Jan. 3, 2007, Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger, then Carilion Clinic President and CEO Edward G….
On Sept. 28, 2006, the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) opened its new office complex in the National Capital…
On Apr. 4, 2006, a Cardiac surgery team at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Pauley Heart Center performed the first…
In 2006, Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center officially opened. The center was constructed with a grant of…
On Apr. 24, 2004, the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, opened its new 59,000-square-foot Bioinformatics Facility I The mission of…
In 2002, The Gateway Building opened at VCU Medical Center, a $39 million dollar structure, opened in March…
In 2002, the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and INOVA Fairfax partnered to establish a medical program in Northern…
In 2000, the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority was established.
In 2000, the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI), later known as the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, opened its…
On Jul. 1, 1997, the operations, employees and obligations of the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals (MCV), formerly…
In 1995, The Virginia Commonwealth University six year Doctor of Pharmacy Program adopted to replace the Bachelor of…
In 1992, Virginia Biotechnology Association (VaBIO) was founded as a non-profit association that promotes the biotechnology industry in…
In 1987, the University of Virginia Cancer Center (UVA), now known as the UVA Health Cancer Center, received…
In 1984, the University of Virginia Cancer Center, now Virginia Health, was founded in Charlottesville. The UVA Cancer…
On Oct. 10, 1980, The Nobel Foundation announced they had awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology…
In 1975, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center received NCI designatation.
In 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University was created through the merger of Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College…
In 1953, Betty Delores Stough became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the Virginia Agricultural and…
In 1942, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first Ph.D. was awarded to Nathan Sugarman in chemistry. In…
In 1941, the Medical College of Virginia Hospital (MCV West Hospital) opened to national acclaim. The largest donation…
In 1932, Tompkins-McCaw Library at the Medical College of Virginia opened. Called the “college library” when the building…