On Mar. 16, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented the first inventor to file (FITF)…
On Mar. 1, 2013, as required by statute, President Obama signed an order that initiated the budget sequestration….
On Feb. 22, 2013, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that unvaccinated pregnant women receive a…
On Feb. 22, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced they had approved Genentech’s licensed ado-trastuzumab…
On Feb. 7, 2023, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries’ tissue library announced they…
In Feb. 2013, the Center for Personalized Diagnostics (CPD) was established at UPenn for researching genomic and therapeutic…
On Jan. 25, 2013, Pfizer announced the FDA had granted approval for the expansion of the companyﾒs pneumococcal…
On Jan. 17, 2013, E Dunn Construction announced it had topped out the OHSU/OUS Collaborative Life Sciences Building…
On Jan. 13, 2013 an international research team led by the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University announced they…
On Jan. 4, 2013, Sanford Health announced the acquisition of Sioux Falls-based biotech company Hematech, a subsidiary of…
In 2013, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders merged three of the…
In 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) activated its Emergency Operations Center to investigate…
In 2013, Harvard Medical School researchers announced they had discovered that GDF-11 reverses cardiac hypertrophy, or thickening of…
On Dec. 14, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved GlaxoSmithKline’s quadrivalent formulation…
On Dec. 12, 2012, deCODE genetics announced an agreement whereby Amgen acquired deCODE Genetics, a global leader in…
On Nov. 28, 2012, scientists from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), as part of an international team,…
On Nov. 20, 2012, the FDA approved a seasonal flu vaccine produced by Novartis using animal cell culture…
On Nov. 20, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved first seasonal influenza…
On Nov. 15, 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the fungal meningitis…
On Nov. 14, 2012, scientists from the U.S., United Kingdom and Germany announced they had completed the first…
On Nov. 8, 2012, Atossa Genetics, the Breast Health Company completed its IPO with gross proceeds of $4…
On Oct. 24, 2012, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) voted to recommend use of HibMenCY (Menhibrix, GlaxoSmithKline),…
On Oct. 24, 2012, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) voted 14-0 with one abstention to recommend that…
On Oct. 3, 2012, Takeda Pharmaceutical acquired LigoCyte for an upfront payment of $60 million, with future contingent…
On Sept. 28, 2012, the Connecticut Challenge Survivorship Clinic opened at Yale Cancer Center providing — the first…
On Sept. 19, 2012, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland announced that it had received a…
On Sept. 10, 2012, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced winners of the annual Lasker Awards: Michael…
On Sept. 10, 2012, Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) announced the estate of Garthe and Grace Brown designated…
On Aug. 30, 2012, a new phlebovirus, discovered in northwestern Missouri by Dr. Scott Folk of Heartland Regional…
On Aug. 10. 2012, Genentech announced that Lucentis (ranibizumab injection) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug…