Consumer Product Safety Commission was enacted by Congress
On Oct. 27, 1972, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSA) was enacted by Congress. The CPSA assumed programs…
On Oct. 27, 1972, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSA) was enacted by Congress. The CPSA assumed programs…
On Jul. 1, 1972, the Regulation of Biologics–including serums, vaccines, and blood products–was transferred from the NIH to…
On Jun. 30, 1972, five U.S .cancer scientists met with Russian scientists in Moscow to exchange information on…
On Jun. 14, 1972, an end to the continued domestic usage of the pesticide DDT was decreed when…
On Jun. 5, 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference)…
On May 11, 1972, the Over-the-Counter Drug Review began to enhance the safety, effectiveness and appropriate labeling of…
May 5, 1972, Frank Joesph Rauscher, Jr. became the seventh director of the National Cancer Institute, serving until…
May 1972 was declared ‘National Arthritis Month’ by Congress and President Nixon.
On Apr. 10, 1972, the U.S., the Soviet Union and 70 other nations sign an agreement that restricted…
In 1972, the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, now known as the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI), was established in…
In 1972, a prototype linear accelerator at Washington University – St. Louis was produced by radiation clinicians and…
In 1972, the Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU), started in the early 1960ï¾’s, became an NCI-designated…
In 1972, by action of the Nebraska Legislature, the Eppley Cancer Center became an independent research institute with…
In 1972, The Norris Cotton Cancer Center was founded. The Center is named for the Senator Norris Cotton…
In 1972, The Albert Einstein Cancer Center (AECC) obtained NCI-designation and its first Cancer Center Support Grant. The…
In 1972, Roswell Park received NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center designation in 1972 and was the first institution in…
In 1972, The Wistar Institute was designated a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center in basic researchï¾—a distinction it…
In 1972, Christian Boehmer Anfinsen (M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1939) shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for…
In 1972, Gerald Maurice Edelman (M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1954) was was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize for…
In 1972, the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, now Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute (PNDRI), was founded by Dr….
In 1972, Dr. Susumu Ohno, writing in the Brookhaven Symposium on Biology in the article “So Much ムJunk…
In 1972, the Division of Biologics Standards was transferred from NIH to FDA and renamed the Bureau of…
In 1972, the Tyson Feed and Hatchery name was changed to Tyson Foods.
In 1972, Livermore was the first to use flow cytometry to sort chromosomes. By the end of the…
In 1972 Stanford Medicine researchers first constructed a recombinant DNA molecule containing DNA from two different species.
In 1972, the Florida Sea Grant was established as a partnership of academia, government, and industry focused on…
In 1972, The CDC launched a national gonorrheaï¾ control program. Rates of gonorrhea decreased after the National Gonorrhea Control…
In 1972, The Priestley Medal was awarded to Frederick D. Rossini by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In 1972, The Priestley Medal was awarded to George B. Kistiakowsky by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In 1972, the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Mills v. Board of Education…