In 2015, Dr. Horace H. Loh received the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) Lifetime Achievement Award…
In 2015, the California Life Sciences Association was founded. (CLSA) was founded when the Bay Area Bioscience Association…
In 2015, Yale Cancer Center was awarded a SPORE (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence) grant for translational research…
On Feb. 27, 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the West Africa…
In 2015, the state of Alaska Department of Health announced they had identified Alaskapox virus in a patient…
In 2015, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced The All of Us Research Program, a historic effort…
On Dec. 23, 2014, Novo Nordisk the FDA approved a formulation of Novo Nordiskﾒs diabetes drug, liraglutide, for…
On Dec. 23, 2014, Juno Therapeutics announced the closing of its initial public offering of 12.7 million shares…
On Dec. 22, 2014, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved RAPIVAB (peramivir…
On Dec. 18, 2014, the University of Nebraska Medical Center announced it had received a $1.3 million gift…
On Dec. 11, 2014, Merck announced that the FDA had approved GARDASILﾮ9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant), Merckﾒs…
On Dec. 12, 2014, Sanofi Pasteur announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the supplemental…
On Dec. 11, 2014, University of Minnesota mourned loss of Lee Wattenberg, M.D., recognized as the ‘father of…
On Dec. 10, 2014, Dr. Andras Nagy, from the University of Toronto and leader of Project Grandiose, announced…
On Dec. 9, 2014, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) announced that Debbie Yaver, Novozymes’ director of expression technology,…
On Dec. 8, 2014, philanthropist and entrepreneur Paul G. Allen announced a commitment of $100 million to create…
On Dec. 3, 2014, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center…
On Dec. 3, 2014, Fred Eshelman, CEO and founder of Wilmington-based PPD Inc. and a member of the…
On Nov. 27, 2014, two papers were published in Science that announced the completion and preliminary analyses of…
On Nov. 21, 2014, funding was announced for the TEC Health Accelerator for Alberta, to assist promising startup…
On Nov. 5, 2014, the Ford Family Foundation announced a $5 million grant to the Knight Cancer Institute…
On Oct. 29, 2014, Pfizer announced the FDA has granted accelerated approval of TRUMENBAﾮ (meningococcal group B vaccine)…
On Oct. 23, 2014, philanthropist Paul G. Allen donated $100 million to fight Ebola and called on the…
On Oct. 21, 2014, the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) announced that technology investor David Roux and his wife Barbara…
On Oct. 20, 2014, Oregon Health & Science University’s Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute (OHSU) announced it was…
On Oct. 15, 2014, Genentech drug Esbriet (pirfenidone) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
On Oct. 15, 2014, the University of Iowa ushered in a new age of accelerated research in biomedicine…
On Oct. 13, 2014, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis launched the annual World Thrombosis Day World…
On Oct. 13, 2014, the University of Minnesota’s Children’s Hospital was renamed the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s…
On Oct. 13, 2014, the Nebraska Medical Center, Bellevue Medical Center and UNMC Physicians – once three separate…