On Jan. 19, 2016, the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced…
On Jan. 12, 2016, a consortium of industry, government, and academia announced the launch of the Cancer MoonShot…
On Jan. 11, 2016, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research scientist David J. Smith reported finding that…
On Jan. 11, 2016, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended biennial screening mammography for women aged…
On Apr. 11, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had granted accelerated approval…
In 2016, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech was founded with a $1 billion…
In 2016, Siteman and St. Louis Children’s Hospital established Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, focused on…
In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the establishment of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AR)…
On Dec, 22, 2015, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science was established by resolution of…
On Dec. 14, 2015, the FDA expanded Merck’s Gardasil 9 licensure to include males age 16ﾖ26 years. The…
On Dec. 11, 2015, Genentech announced that it’s drug Alecensa (alectinib) was approved by the U.S. Food and…
On Dec. 8, 2015, the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) Health Sciences announced it had received…
On Nov. 25, 2015, scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced they had sequenced…
On Nov. 25, 2015, Seqirus announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Fluad™ (Influenza…
On Nov. 19, 2015, AquaBounty Technologies announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the Company’s…
On Nov. 18, 2015, the estate of Glenn Korff gifted $5 million to the Fred & Pamela Buffett…
On Nov. 17, 2015, the NIH announced that since Jun. 2013, based on recommendations from the Council of…
On Nov. 12, 2015, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine announced receipt of a major…
On Nov. 10, 2015, Genentech announed that its drug Cotellic (cobimetinib) was approved by the U.S. Food and…
On Nov. 9, 2015, the Human Dark Proteome Initiative was launched. The initiative aimed to accelerate research into…
On Nov. 5, 2015, TapImmune, (TPIV) announced it had relocated its corporate headquarters from Seattle, Washington, to Jacksonville,…
On Nov. 2, 2015, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and its clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine, announced the…
On Oct. 28, 2015, it was announced that Calgary’s new cancer centre will be built at the northeast…
On Oct. 23, 2015, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) published recommendations for the use of serogroup B…
On Oct. 21, 2015, the Omar Boraie Chair in Genomic Science was established at Rutgers Cancer Institute. The…
On Oct. 19, 2015, the first withdrawl from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was required due to Syrian…
On Oct. 19, 2015, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) geochemists announced evidence that life likely existed on…
On Oct. 12, 2015, the University of Nebraska’s new biomedical technology institute, a joint venture led by the…
On Oct. 8, 2015, a research team reported the first ancient human genome sequence from Africa. The genome…
On Oct. 7, 2015, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Francis Crick…