On Oct. 16, 2006, the Cancer Genome Atlas program, created by National Cancer Institute and the National Human…
On Oct. 5, 2006, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, NIH, FDA, and the Pharmaceutical Research…
On Sept. 1, 2006, President Bush appointed John E. Niederhuber, M.D., to be the 13th director of the…
On Aug. 14, 2006, National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers announced they had found a unique pattern of activity…
On Mar. 22, 2006, the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington School of Medicine in St….
On Feb. 6, 2006, Sanofi pasteur announced it had delivered more H5N1 vaccine to the U.S. government including…
On Jan. 31, 2006, Dan Duncan, founder of Enterprise Partners, an energy company in Houston, announced a donation…
In 2006, the Winship Cancer Institute received a $7.9 million P01 5-year grant from the Cancer Institute (NCI)…
In 2006, Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center officially opened. The center was constructed with a grant of…
On Nov. 11, 2005, the U.S. Congress authorized the 2-year extension of Postage Stamp for Breast Cancer Research…
On Nov. 7, 2005, the National Cancer Institute launched a cancer biorepository pilot project designed to standardize biospecimen…
On Oct. 11, 2005, the National Cancer Institute announced the Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) initiative…
On Oct. 5, 2005, the National Cancer Institute’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer,…
On Jun. 29, 2005, the Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-18) amended…
On Apr. 12, 2005, the National Cancer Institute announced the creation of the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid. The…
On Apr. 1, 2005, Sanofi pasteur was awarded a five-year $97 million contract from the U.S. Department of…
In 2005, The Patient Navigator Research Program (PNRP), a National Cancer Institute initiative, was underway to assess the…
On Sept. 22, 2004, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) opened the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center,…
On Sept. 13, 2004, the National Cancer Institute announced the Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, a 5-year initiative…
On May 25, 2004, researchers at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) and the Oregon National Primate…
On May 4, 2004, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), awarded a new license agreement…
Apr. 14, 2004, the National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers was established in Michigan in response to…
On Mar. 16, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report addressing the recent slowdown in…
In 2004, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) collaborated with the Department of Health and Human Services to establish…
On Sept. 29, 2003, $81 million was awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) through…
On Sept. 3, 2003, the death rates from the four most common cancers, – lung, breast, prostate, and…
On Jun. 5, 2003, data from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial gave fresh insight…
On Apr. 15, 2003, the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLB) announced a $37 million trial, coordinated by…
On Dec. 12, 2002, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that a clinical trial had shown that reducing…
On Sept. 18, 2002, the National Cancer Institute launched the National Lung Screening Trial to compare two ways…