In Aug. 1987, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published guidelines on preventing HIV transmission…
In 1987, University of California, San Diego Alumnus Susumu Tonegawa was awarded he Nobel Prize for Physiology or…
In 1987, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Genentech’s drug tPA Activase (alteplase). Activase is a…
In 1987, The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center received National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation. CSHL researchers…
In 1987, the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, now known as the Masonic Cancer Center, received National Cancer…
In 1987, Boston Children’s Hospital researcher Lous Kunkel and his colleagues discovered the gene that causes Duchenne muscular…
In 1987, Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) was a private/public partnership established by the state of Kansas to…
In 1987, Dr. Robert Thornburg at Iowa State University (ISU) prepared transgenic tobacco plants expressing a gene that…
In 1987, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), a University of Iowa spin-off company founded by Dr. Joseph Walder, established…
In 1987, Richard Lerner, chair of the Scripps Department of Molecular Biology, was appointed the research institute’s new…
In 1987, Livermore biomedical researchers began studying human chromosome 19. At the same time, Los Alamos began efforts…
In 1987, The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, one of the first formal postdoctoral research…