On Dec. 16,, 1982, the National Cancer Institute purchased what is now the R. A. Bloch International Cancer…
On Dec. 10, 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided an update on AIDS…
On Dec. 2, 1982, a team led by William DeVries, at the University of Utah, successfully implanted the…
On Nov. 5, 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published infection control recommendation for…
On Nov. 5, 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published requirements of the tamper-resistant packaging (TRP)…
On Oct. 28, 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Humulin, Eli Lily’s recombinant insulin made…
On Oct. 5, 1982, Johnson & Johnson, the parent company of McNeil, issued a nationwide recall of Tylenol…
On Sept. 29, 1982. the first of seven victims died after taking a capsule of Extra-Strength Tylenol. On…
On Jul. 27, 1982, a meeting in Washington, DC, attended by federal officials, university researchers, community activists, and…
On Jul. 15, 1982, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 413 cases of the…
On Jul. 5, 1982, the American Chemical Society announced that Robert S. Mulliken had been named the recipient…
On Jun. 30, 1982, persuasive evidence that the HIV disease was caused by an infectious agent was presented…
On Mar. 3, 1982, a conference on the new HIV disease was held by the U.S. Public Health…
On Jan. 21, 1982, C. Everett Koop was appointed U.S. Surgeon General by President Ronald Reagan. In 1984,…
On Jan. 15, 1982, the second AIDS patient was admitted to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…
In 1982, Richard D. Palmiter at the University of Washington scientists created first “transgenic mouse” in collaboration with…
In 1982, Dr. Paul Kincade joined the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), and broken new ground time and…
In 1982, the Fred Hutch established the Cancer Prevention Program in Seattle, which has made key contributions to…
In 1982, the Medical College of Virginia main hospital opened, a modern, 14-story, 539-bed facility costing in excess…
In 1982, George Streisinger at the University of Oregon (UO) cloned the first vertebrate — a zebrafish. Streisinger…
In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a publication, known as the Redbook, that described the…
In 1982, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Sune K. Bergstrom, Bengt I….
In 1982, the U.S. General Accounting Office releases a scathing report on the National Plant Germplasm System, saying…
In 1982, The Priestley Medal was awarded to Bryce Crawford, Jr. by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In 1982, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), was…
In 1982, the first major DNA sequence databases were established in the U.S. (GenBank) and Germany. GenBank ®…
In 1982, the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Physician Data Query (PDQ) cancer information database went online. PDQ is…
In 1982, the first recombinant DNA vaccine for livestock was developed. An advantage of the vaccines made through…
In 1982, National Research Council, after a study of the relationship of diet and nutrition to cancer, developed…
In 1982, the TP53 gene from the mouse was first cloned by Peter Chumakov of the Russian Academy…