On Jun. 12, 2015, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) published recommendations for use of serogroup B meningococcal…
On Jun. 8, 2015, the American Medical Association adopted a new policyﾠthat recommended that states have in place…
On Jun. 3, 2015, Business leader and University of Southern California (USC) Trustee Rick J. Caruso and his…
Washington Life Science History is a poster that illustrates significant events in the development of the life science…
On May 18, 2015, The Hersh Foundation annunced a $5 million lead gift to Southwestern Medical Foundation to…
On Mar. 11, 2015, the National Health Service (NHS) announced that Patients in the NHS had begun receiving…
On Mar. 6, 2015, the FDA approved filgrastim-sndz (Zarxio, Sandoz, Inc.), the first biosimilar product available in the…
On Mar. 3, 2015, the first-ever World Birth Defects Day was observed with the support of 12 organizations….
On Feb. 17, 2015, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) announced it had received a grant of US…
On Feb. 11, 2015, researchers announced they had sequenced the genomes of all 15 species of Darwin’s finches,…
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. 11, 2014, Merck announced that the FDA had approved GARDASILﾮ9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant), Merckﾒs…
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. 13, 2014, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis launched the annual World Thrombosis Day World…
On Oct. 13, 2014, the Nebraska Medical Center, Bellevue Medical Center and UNMC Physicians – once three separate…
On Oct. 8, 2014, Ohio State University, Cardinal Health and State of Ohio Third Frontier Commission announced completion…
On Oct. 6, 2014, May-Britt Moser won a share of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
On Oct. 5, 2014, BD and CareFusion announced a definitive agreement whereby BD acquired CareFusion for $58.00 per…
On Sept. 23, 2014, Bristol-Myers Squibb announced plans to build a 650,000-square-foot office building on company-owned land in…
On Sept. 12, 2014, the University of Iowa announced that alumnus Franklin D. Truebloodﾒs lifelong interest in medical…
On Sept. 11, 2014, the National Institutes of Health established the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures. Building…
On Sept. 3, 2014, Abbott announced it had received CE Mark (Conformite Europeenne) for its FreeStyleﾮ Libre Flash…
On Aug. 19, 2014, Baxter announced it planned to expand its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Opelika, to help…
On Jul. 10, 2014, an international confederation of biotechnology trade associations ratified bylaws that created the International Council…
On Jun. 28, 2014, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research announced a record $275 million anonymous to helping…
On Apr. 24, 2014 an international team of scientists announced they had deciphered the genetic code of the…
On Apr. 24, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that vaccinations prevent more…
On Apr. 4, 2014, Lowell Miller, a resident of Loch Lloyd, Mo., made a gift of $1.1 million…