Phase III results for first HIV/AIDS (Aidsvax) vaccine reported
On Sept. 24, 2009, the second Phase III HIV-1 vaccine trial, also known as RV144, that began in…
On Sept. 24, 2009, the second Phase III HIV-1 vaccine trial, also known as RV144, that began in…
On Sept. 16, 2009, Brian J. Druker, M.D.,whose research led to the development of Gleevec, the first targeted…
On Jun. 17, 2009, Virginia Commonwealth University’s school of Dentistry building opened its doors. The $20 million, four-story…
On Apr. 15, 2009, a novel influenza A virus (then referred to as ‘swine origin influenza A virus’)…
On Apr. 15, 2009, infection with the new influenza A virus (then referred to as ‘swine origin influenza…
On Apr. 15, 2009, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of Washington (UW), along with…
On Apr. 1, 2009, the University of Southern California (USC) purchased Norris Cancer Hospital and University Hospital (now…
On Mar. 26, 2009, Roche completed its acquisition of Genentech for $46.8 billion pursuant to a short-form merger…
On Mar. 2, 2009, the Hollings Cancer Center was designated a Cancer Institute. National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation…
On Mar. 2, 2009, the Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) received National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation. Hollings’ mission is…
On Feb. 26, 2009, the new Scripps Research Institute’s Florida facility, comprising three state-of-the-art buildings and more than…
On Feb. 25, 2008, Oregon State University’s James Carrington, a professor of botany and plant pathology and a…
On Feb 10, 2009, Caroline Amplatz pledged $50-million to the Minnesota Medical Foundation, in Minneapolis, to support the…
On Feb. 6, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first genetically engineered animal for…
On Feb. 4, 2009, the presidents of the MGH, MIT and Harvard University announced the creation of the…
On Jan. 21, 2009, the Knight Cancer Institute announced the recruitment of lung oncology expert Alan Sandler, M.D.,…
In 2009, The Wyss Institute was founded based on the belief that science has uncovered enough information about…
In 2009, The University of New Mexico Cancer Center opened its new state-of-the-art cancer treatment and research facility….
In 2009, Dr. Andras Nagy reported the discovery of a new non-viral method of creating stem cells from…
On Dec. 9, 2008, in contrast with earlier research suggesting that dietary supplementation with selenium and vitamin E…
On Nov. 19, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened its first foreign office in Beijing to…
On Nov. 5, 2008, Siteman Cancer Center and The Genome Center researchers Timothy J. Ley, MD, Elaine Mardis,…
On Oct. 29, 2008, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced that Nike founder Philip H. and Penny…
On Sept. 15, 2008, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) launched the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) to…
On Sept. 2008, a narrow region on chromosome 15 contains genetic variations strongly associated with familial lung cancer,…
On Aug. 20, 2008, Sonus Pharmaceuticals was acquired by OncoGenex Technologies in a reverse merger transaction worth $10.36…
On Jul. 8, 2008, Stanford researchers announced discovered a molecule that kills kidney cancer cells. Ideally, the researchers…
On Jun. 27, 2008, Pacific Oncology joined with Oregon Health & Science University and created greater access to…
On Jun. 22, 2008, National Cancer Institute researchers announced that cells from a blood-borne cancer called multiple myeloma…
On Jun. 18, 2008, National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues figured out how to add the…