On Dec. 30, 1977, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Tamoxifen, an anti-estrogen drug, for the treatment…
On Nov. 23, 1977, the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress to stop…
On Nov. 21, 1977, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed the first pneumococcal vaccine containing 14…
On Oct. 30, 1977, Ali Maow Maalin, a hospital cook in Merca, Somalia, was diagnosed with smallpox by…
In 1967, chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first observed in a captive deer in Colorado where it was…
On Aug. 31, 1977, in recognition of the seriousness of lupus and America’s commitment to its control, the…
On Jul. 29, 1977, Arthur Canfield Upton, M.D. became the eighth director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)…
On May 12, 1977, the Program for the Introduction and Adaptation of Contraceptive Technology (PIACT) was founded by…
On Apr. 6, 1977, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now Department of Health and Human Services)…
On Apr. 4, 1977, Donald Kennedy, Ph.D., became Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Kennedy,…
In 1977, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Henry Gilman by the American Chemical Society “to recognize distinguished…
On Mar. 7, 1977, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Bristol-Myers’ BICNU (carmustine), for the treatment of…
In 1977, Ilya Prigogine from the University of Texas at Austin was awarded the Nobel Prize “for his…
In 1977, St.ﾠ Jude Children’s Research Hospital received National Cancer Institute designation. St.ﾠJude Children’s Research Hospital opened it’s…
In 1977, Dr. Henry Friesen of McGill University discovered the hormone prolactin and defined its role as a…
In 1977, the Lineberger Foundation pledged $1 million to a building fund for a new cancer research center…
In 1977, Harvard Medical School researcher Stephen C. Harrison first determined the structure of an intact virus particle,…
In 1977, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) established the first electronic registry of cancer clinical trials (CLINPROT). This…
In 1977, Dr. Jack Costello, a geneticist in New Zealand, first identified a genetic disorder, now known as…
In 1977, the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) having inherited from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s…
In 1977, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established the Bioresearch Monitoring Program (BiMo) to develop cross-center…
In 1977, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of the Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare (later Health and…
In 1977, Rosalyn Yalow won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development…
In 1977, the multiple research programs that had developed were formally drawn together into the Research Institute of…
In 1977, Charles C. Edwards, formerly the nation’s top government health official, was named president and CEO of…
In 1977, Stanford Research Institute changed its name to SRI International. Stanford Research Institute, now known as the…
In 1977, the original Naval Medical Center tower was designated a historical landmark and entered into the Registry…
In 1977, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolated Legionella pneumophila, which caused a deadly…
In 1977, Eugene Goldwasser published Purification of Human Erythropoietin (EPO) in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Goldwasser spent…
In 1977, Dana-Farber (DF) received National Cancer Institute (NCI) Comprehensive Cancer Center designation one of the first in…