April 2005 - ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc. founded by John Cameron, Ph.D.
Sept. 20, 2006 - Groundbreaking for the ProCure Training and Development Center, Bloomington, Ind.
April 9, 2007 - Groundbreaking for the ProCure Proton Therapy Center, Oklahoma City
Feb. 14, 2008 - ProCure announces collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Roberts Proton Therapy Center to advance proton therapy training, research and development. ProCure's network of centers will be linked into UPENN's research protocols
March 27, 2008 -The ProCure Proton Therapy Training and Development Center opens - the world's first and only facility dedicated exclusively to proton therapy training
April 7, 2008 - ProCure announces collaboration with IVY Tech Community College, Bloomington, Ind., offering a proton therapy certificate program that will train and credential students enrolled in the College's Radiation Therapy Program
May 6, 2008 - ProCure announces plans to build a proton therapy center in South Florida
May 12, 2008 - The ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City receives major piece of medical equipment - the cyclotron from IBA, Belgium - en-route to a world record 27-month construction timeline
May 14, 2008 - ProCure receives an additional $35 million round of equity funding from Oklahoma City-based McClendon Venture Company, LLC (MVC)
July 9, 2008 - ProCure and William Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, receive Certificate of Need approval from the Michigan Department of Community Health to build a proton therapy center
Aug. 20, 2008 - ProCure is recognized as an Indiana Company to Watch, an award that recognizes the 50 top privately held second-stage companies in Indiana
Sept. 18, 2008 - ProCure and Central DuPage Hospital receive Certificate of Need approval from the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board to build a proton therapy center in Warrenville, Ill., a western suburb of Chicago
Oct. 20, 2008 - Groundbreaking for the proton therapy center in Warrenville, Ill.
Oct. 29, 2008 - ProCure announces collaboration with Oklahoma State University to create undergraduate and graduate programs in medical physics to train the next generation of medical professionals in delivering proton therapy.
Feb. 19, 2009 - First group of physicians, physicists, dosimetrists begin training at ProCure's Training and Development Center
July 8, 2009 - The first Procure Proton Therapy Center opens in Oklahoma City.
Sept. 28, 2009 - ProCure’s CDH Proton Therapy Center in Warrenville, Ill. (suburb of Chicago) receives its cyclotron – a major milestone in the construction of Illinois’ first proton therapy center.
Sept. 29, 2009 - ProCure and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance announce plan to develop a proton therapy center.
Nov. 12, 2009 - First group of patients complete treatment at the ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City.
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