National Alzheimer’s Disease Month was established
On Oct. 3, 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation making the month of November 1983 as National…
On Oct. 3, 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation making the month of November 1983 as National…
On Sept. 21, 1983, Sickle Cell Month was officially recognized nationally when the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously…
On Jul. 16, 1983, the National Cancer Institute launched the Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) to provide a…
On Jun. 30, 1983, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed two enhanced pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines (Pneumovax…
On Jun. 22, 1983, the American Association of Blood Banks, the Council of Community Blood Centers, and the…
On Jun. 17, 1983, Applied Molecular Genetics (AMGen), led by CFO Gordon Binder issued its Initial Public Offering…
in May 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill that established the Foundation for the Advancement…
On Apr. 1, 1983, the University of Nebraska Medical Center performed their first bone marrow transplant. The program…
In 1983, the the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Robert S. Mulliken ‘for his numerous…
On Feb. 7, 1983, Rita M. Lavelle, head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program to clean up…
On Feb. 3, 1983, the University of Southern California Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute (USC…
On Jan. 4, 1983, epidemiologic evidence that the AIDS agent was blood-borne led to official meetings and public…
On Jan. 3, 1983, the Orphan Drug Act was passed by the U.S. Congress with the leadership of…
In 1983, the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA)Â is a public, non-profit corporation chartered by the State of…
In 1983, Kary Mullis, PhD, a scientist at the Cetus Corp., conceived of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as…
In 1983, the National Cancer Institute formed the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control to accelerate the science…
In 1983, Amgen scientists isolated the gene that creates EPO and filed a patent. Pioneering studies on erythropoietin…
In 1983, Hollister-Stier Laboratories became a division of the Miles Pharmaceutical Group. Hollister-Stier Laboratories, located in Spokane, was…
In 1983, the Massey Cancer Center opened under the direction of Dr. Walter Lawrence Jr., a surgeon and…
In 1983, the Arkansas Science & Technology Authority was created to bring the benefits of science and technology…
In 1983, Pat Mooney’s Law of the Seed was released, published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, which is…
In 1983, Computerized tomography of the colon (virtual colonoscopy) was proposed as a screening method to identify colon…
In 1983, additive solutions were shown to extend the shelf life of red blood cells (RBC) to 42…
In 1983, the Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) was uncovered by the use of restriction endonucleases which cleave…
In 1983, the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Resources, Centers and Community Activities was renamed the Division of…
In 1983, the Community Clinical Oncology Program, an National Cancer Institute (NCI) resource that links community-based physicians with…
In 1983, the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee unanimously approved Lindow test. Stephen Lindow,…
In 1983, at the 22nd session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), germplasm becomes a political football…
In 1883, The Meyer L. Prentis Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit now known as the Karmanos Cancer…
In 1983, Dr. Patricia E. Bath became the first woman to chair an ophthalmology residency program in the…