The Health Programs Extension Act of 1980 was signed into law, extending National Cancer Institute authorization for 3 years
On Dec. 17, 1980, the Health Programs Extension Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-538), introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy,…
On Dec. 17, 1980, the Health Programs Extension Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-538), introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy,…
On Dec. 12, 1980, the U.S. Senate passed Joint Resolution 213 which designated the NIH’s Clinical Center in…
On Dec. 12, 1980, A bill to amend title 35 of the United States Code (H.R.6933, Public Law:…
On Dec. 11, 1980, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, was…
On Nov. 7, 1980, Stanford researchers Henry Kaplan and Lennart Olsson announced they had created cells to manufacture…
On Oct. 14, 1980, the first biotechnology public offering — Genentech makes history on Wall Street when just…
On Jul. 10, 1980, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris approved an…
On Jul. 9, 1980, Vincent T. DeVita, Jr. became the ninth director of the National Cancer Institute, serving…
On Jun. 16, 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld five-to-four the patentability of genetically altered organisms, opening the…
On May 30, 1980, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report of health…
On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly certified the world free of naturally-occurring smallpox. Smallpox is an…
On Apr. 10, 1980, the Alzheimer’s Association was established. In 1979, Jerome H. Stone and representatives from several…
On Apr. 8, 1980, AMGen (Applied Molecular Genetics) was established in Thousand Oaks, California with George B. Rathmann…
On Mar. 17, 1980, Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty filed a patent application assigned to the General Electric Co. for…
On Mar. 4, 1980, the first endowed chair at University of Washington School of Medicine created in memory…
In 1980, the Gershenson Radiation Oncology Center opened as a partnership between Wayne State Universityï¾’s School of Medicine…
In 1980, Genetic Systems was founded in 1980 as a monoclonal antibody-based diagnostic company by Robert Nowinski of…
In 1980 The Medical College of Virginia alumnus Baruj Benacerraf was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and…
In 1980, McGill University researcher Dr. Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie developed Ganciclovir to treat or prevent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections….
In 1980, a group of scientists and industrialists concluded that the time had come to found a national…
In 1980, The Mary Brigh Building, one of the Mayo’s largest expansion projects, opened. The addition added a…
In May 1980, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) organized a task force to study…
In 1980, the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR), was founded in 1980 by the Provinicial Legislature…
In 1980, autism appeared for the first time as a diagnosis in the third edition of the DSM…
In 1980, National Cancer Institute (NCI) scientists isolated human T-cell lymphotrophic virus 1 (HTLV-1). This virus, which is…
In 1980, Established in 1980, the award commemorates Vannevar Bush, a science advisor to President Roosevelt during World…
In 1980, the National Science Board (NSB) announced that James R. Killian, Jr. was the recipient of its…
In 1980, the Infant Formula Act is one of the most specific and detailed acts ever passed by…
In 1980, U.S. Congressional hearings on proposed amendments to expand the 1970 Plant Variety Protection Act turn into…
In 1980, Rabies human diploid-cell vaccine (Imovax Rabies by Merieux, now Sanofi, and Wyvac by Wyeth) were licensed.