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, the Lineberger Foundation pledged $1 million to a building fund for a new cancer research center…
In 1977, Ilya Prigogine from the University of Texas at Austin was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize “for…
In 1977, St.ï¾ Jude Children’s Research Hospital received National Cancer Institute designation. St.ï¾ Jude 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 first national cancer patient education program (I Can Cope) was founded by the National Cancer…
In 1977, Harvard Medical School researcher Stephen C. Harrison first determined the structure of an intact virus particle,…
In 1977, Dana-Farber (DF) received National Cancer Institute (NCI) Comprehensive Cancer Center designation one of the first in…
In 1977, Eugene Goldwasser published Purification of Human Erythropoietin (EPO) in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Goldwasser spent…
In 1977, Schering-Plough Animal Health introduced AR-Pac vaccines for swine. For years, Iowa State University veterinary medicine researchers…
In 1977, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolated Legionella pneumophila, which caused a deadly…
In 1977, the original Naval Medical Center tower was designated a historical landmark and entered into the Registry…
In 1977, Stanford Research Institute changed its name to SRI International. Stanford Research Institute, now known as the…
In 1977, Charles C. Edwards, formerly the nation’s top government health official, was named president and CEO of…
In 1977, the multiple research programs that had developed were formally drawn together into the Research Institute of…
In 1977, Rosalyn Yalow won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development…
In 1977, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of the Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare (later Health and…
In 1977, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established the Bioresearch Monitoring Program (BiMo) to develop cross-center…
In 1977, the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) having inherited from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s…