Congress created the National Vaccine Program
On Nov. 14, 1986, the U.S. Congress created the National Vaccine Program (NVP) to coordinate the vaccine research…
On Nov. 14, 1986, the U.S. Congress created the National Vaccine Program (NVP) to coordinate the vaccine research…
On Nov. 10, 1986, the International Cancer Information Center was established in the Office of International Affairs, National…
On Oct. 27, 1986, the Moffitt Cancer Center opened to patients. The center was established in 1981 by…
On Oct. 27, 1986, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was enacted by the U.S. Congress. The Act…
On Oct. 18, 1986, the Moffitt Cancer Center was dedicated. The center was established in 1981 by the…
On Oct. 1, 1986, Positron emission tomograph (PET) was installed at the University of Washington. The UW Medical…
On Aug. 6, 1986, Bill Schroeder from Jasper, Indiana, the second human recipient of the Jarvik 7 artificial…
On Jul. 23, 1986, the Recombinant hepatitis B vaccine (Recombivax HB by Merck) was licensed. Using recombinant DNA…
On June 12, 1986, Bristol-Myers opened a state-of-the-art research complex in Wallingford, Connecticut, designed to house more than…
On Jun. 5, 1986, Genzyme launched an IPO at $10 a share, and raised $28.3 million. Genzyme was…
On Jun. 5, 1986, the FDA approved Hoffmann La Roche’s Interferon becoming the first anticancer drug produced through…
On Jun. 4, 1986, the FDA approved the drug Intron A for hairy cell leukemia. Intron A is…
In May 1986, the vaccine Recombivax HB, which protects against hepatitis B infection, was approved for marketing in…
On Mar. 19, 1986, Eli Lilly acquired San Diego-based Hybritech for $300 million. Hybritech was a leading producer…
On Mar. 13, 1986, Microsoft Corporation, founded by Bill Gates Jr. and the late Paul Allen in 1975,…
On Feb. 4, 1986, Bristol-Myers announced it would acquire Genetic Systems for $310 million. Genetic Systems was a…
In 1986, The Mayo Clinic, Rochester Methodist Hospital and Saint Marys Hospital integrated their operations under one governing…
In 1986, Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston while deputy branch chief of the Sickle Cell Disease Branch at the…
In 1986, Procyte Corp. was founded as a kirkland-based medical skin care company that developed and marketed therapeutic…
In 1986, The Virginia Commonwealth University’s renovated North Hospital (former E.G. Williams Hospital) opened.
In 1986, The University of Utah Cancer program earned National Cancer Institute designation as a Cancer Center, with…
In 1986, Dr. Stanley Cohen of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine received a shared Nobel Prize for…
In 1986, Bend Research began a collaboration with Pfizer. Bend Research was founded in 1975 by Harry Lonsdale…
In 1986, the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology introduced the first mobile mammography unit in the St. Louis region.
In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini won half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of…
In 1986, Lorne Tyrrell discovered the first antiviral drug to inhibit hepatitis B virus.
In 1986, Auburn University’s colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences & Mathematics were created from the former schools…
In 1986, The Priestley Medal was awarded to Henry Taube by the American Chemical Society “to recognize distinguished…
In 1986, The Priestley Medal was awarded to Karl A. Folkers by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan designated the month of March as Hemophilia Awareness Month to bring attention to…