On Jul. 8, 2008, Stanford researchers announced discovered a molecule that kills kidney cancer cells. Ideally, the researchers…
On Apr. 25, 2008, marked the first-ever World Malaria Day established by the United Nations to ensure that…
On Apr. 18, 2008, the Claude Moore Health Education and Research Center opened in Northern Virginia and houses…
In 2008, the Institute for Public Health at Washington University – St. Louis was established via Siteman Cancer…
On Dec. 4, 2007, representatives of 111 countries and 29 international organizations met in New Delhi India for…
On Oct. 9, 2007, the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT was established with…
On Oct. 8, 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Oliver Smithies from…
On Aug. 20, 2007, researchers from Stanford University announced they had identified a pattern of gene expression shared…
On May 21, 2007, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced that Grover Bagby, M.D., after 15 years…
On Jan. 3, 2007, Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger, then Carilion Clinic President and CEO Edward G….
In 2007, researchers at Livermore National Laboratory announced they had developed candidate signatures for pathogens that might be…
On Feb. 23, 2006, groundbreaking was held for the first building of the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC),…
On Jan. 31, 2006, Dan Duncan, founder of Enterprise Partners, an energy company in Houston, announced a donation…
In 2006, Andrew Fire of Stanford Univeristy School of Medicine was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology…
In 2006, San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine was established as a California non-profit corporation and a 501(c)(3)…
In 2006, The OHSU Peter O. Kohler Pavilion opened as state-of-the-art patient care facility on Marquam Hill in…
In 2006, Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center officially opened. The center was constructed with a grant of…
In 2006, the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) was founded as an international research collaboration that tracks the global…
On Sept. 12, 2005, David H. Murdock announced a $1.5 billion scientific and economic revitalization project called the…
On Jul. 16, 2005, Virginia Mason Medical Center opened an expanded Center for Hyperbaric Medicine on Seattle’s First…
On Jun. 8, 2005, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s Sir Alexander Fleming scholar program celebrated it’s 50th class…
In 2005, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was formally established following the passage of Proposition 71…
In 2005, Dr. Michael Mulligan from the University of Washington performed Seattle Cancer Care Alliance’s (SCCA) first video-assisted…
In Dec. 2004, David H. Murdock purchased the former Cannon Mills site at auction, future home of the…
On Oct. 4, 2004, the Nobel Assembly announced the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
On Jun. 26, 2004, the 8th and final report of the Immunization Safety Review Committee was issued by…
On Jun. 16, 2004, Portland’s Schnitzer Investment Corp. donated nearly 20 acres of land at the South Willamette…
On May 11, 2004, the University of Alabama Medical Center’s opened a new $13.5 million 77,000 square foot…
On Feb. 26, 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved the first antiangiogenic…
In 2004, The Broad Institute was launched with a $100 million gift from Eli and Edythe Broad. Discussions…