German lab demonstrated feasibility to detect SARS-Coronavirus-2 using Hologic’s Panther Fusion System
On Mar. 5, 2020, Hologic announced a molecular assay for detecting the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (previously 2019-nCoV) on…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center professor Ege T Kavalali, Ph.D. received a Humboldt Research Award
On Dec. 31, 2019, Ege T. Kavalali, Ph.D., professor and acting chair of the Department of Pharmacology in…
Vanderbilt Vaccine Center Director James Crow Jr, MD, was awarded half of the Future Insight Prize by Merck KGaA of Germany
On Jul. 9, 2019, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center announced that Director James Crow Jr., MD, had been awarded half…
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The Human Genome Project was completed
On Apr. 13, 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the completion of the Human Genome Project…
International team sequenced the bread wheat genome
On Nov. 14, 2012, scientists from the U.S., United Kingdom and Germany announced they had completed the first…
Scientists decoded genome of bonobo
On Jun. 13, 2012, in a project led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig,…
Entire genome of extinct Denisovan human decoded from fossil
On Feb. 7, 2012, The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, completed the genome sequence…
Researchers reconstructed genome of the Black Death
On Oct. 13, 2011, an international team, led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen…
Amnis Corp. was acquired by EMD Millipore
On Aug. 30, 2011, Amnis, a Seattle-based manufacturer of advanced cell imaging systems, announced the company had been…
The genome of our closest relative, the Neandertal, was sequenced
On May 7, 2010, in a paper released in Science, an international consortium announced sequencing the genome of…
Gates Foundation announced second grant to polio eradication
On Jan. 21, 2009, the Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the British and German…
William Hagopian launched The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young study
In 2004, William Hagopian, M.D., Ph.D., launched The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study at…
AgReliant Genetics was founded
On Jul. 1, 2000, AgReliant Genetics was founded by global seed companies KWS of Einbeck, Germany and Limagrain…
Eli Lilly and Takeda Chemical Industries launched Actos, an oral antidiabetes agent
In 2000, Eli Lilly and Takeda Chemical launched Actos, an oral anti diabetes agent. In 2005, a PROactive…
Hoeschst blocked from completing a Frankfurt plant for the production of genetically engineered human insulin
In 1989, the Administrative Supreme Court of the state of Hesse, West Germany, blocks the multinational chemical company…
The first recombinant vaccine for humans, a vaccine for hepatitis B, was approved
In May 1986, the vaccine Recombivax HB, which protects against hepatitis B infection, was approved for marketing in…
The first major DNA sequence databases were established in the U.S. (GenBank) and Germany
In 1982, the first major DNA sequence databases were established in the U.S. (GenBank) and Germany. GenBank ®…
The first Thalidomide birth occurred in Germany
On Dec. 25, 1956, the first Thalidomide birth occurred in Germany. Thalidomide, a new sleeping pill developed by…
The Priestley Medal was awarded to Ian Heilbron
In 1945, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Ian Heilbron, “to recognize distinguished services to…
The Priestley Medal was awarded to James B Conant
In 1944, the the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to James B. Conant “to recognize distinguished…
The electron microscope was used to characterize a bacteriophage virus that infects bacteria
In 1942, the first phage electron micrographs (EM) were published in 1940 in Germany and proved the particulate…
Ernest Everett Just became the first American to be invited to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
In 1930, Ernest Everett Just, an African American biologist, became the first American to be invited to the…
The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy secretly produced bootleg aspirin
In 1917, the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy secretly produced bootleg aspirin after the war in Europe…
Bayer introduced new pain relief product under the trademark Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid)
On Mar. 6, 1899, Bayer, based in Germany, introduced a newly patented pain relief product under the trademark…
German chemist Felix Hoffmann synthesized aspirin and heroin
On Aug. 10, 1897, German chemist Felix Hoffmann searching for something to relieve his father’s arthritis synthesized acetylsalicylic…
Typhoid vaccines were first developed
In 1896, Almroth Edward Wright, Richard Pfeiffer and Wilhelm Kolle developed the first typhoid vaccine. It was a…
Chemist Felix Hoffmann, one of the inventors of Aspirin, joined “Farbenfabriken vorm Friedr Bayer & Co”
In 1894, German chemist Felix Hoffmann, one of the inventors of Aspirin, joined “Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer &…
The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy was established
In 1885, the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy opened in the basement of the Medical Building, the…
The Heyden Company began manufacturing and selling synthetic salicylic acid
In 1874, the Heyden Company located near Dresden, Germany began manufacturing and selling synthetic salicylic acid. Acetylated salicylic…
The Bayer Company (Friedrich Bayer et Compagnie) was founded
On Aug. 1, 1863, the general partnership “Friedr. Bayer et comp.” was founded in Barmen, Germany by dye…