In 1985, Lumpectomy plus radiation therapy was found equivalent to mastectomy for early breast cancer. Lumpectomy followed by…
In 1985, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), the remnant of the effort…
In 1985, Rotary International established its PolioPlus program, which held two fundraising events. Rotary has contributed over $500…
In 1985, Federal courts ruled that private companies don’t need National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) permission for field…
In 1985, an agricultural specialist with no experience in foreign affairs, Mikhail Gorbachev, becomes Soviet leader after the…
In 1985, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised the case definition of AIDS to…
In 1985, virologist Flossie Wong-Staal became the first person to clone HIV, which led to the development of…
In 1985, the HER2 oncogene was discovered by Axel Ullrich, a young scientist at Genentech. The new oncogene…
In 1985, the CDIPD was founded as an NIH-NIAID-supported Tropical Disease Research Unit (TDRU) at University of California,…
In 1985, California becomes the first state to launch its own Genetic Resources Conservation Program. Designed to preserve…
In 1985, telomerase was discovered by University of California, Berkeley graduate student Carol Greider, as well as Elzabeth…
In 1985, the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit was named in honor of Meyer L. Prentis, a…
In 1985, Dr. Anthony Pawson discovered the SH2 protein domain involved in controlling cell behavior, leading to targeted…
In 1985, Michael Stuart Brown from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas was awarded the…
On Dec. 20, 1984, a team of scientists announced that a cDNA clone for human p53 cellular tumor…
On Nov. 15, 1984 Allan Wilson and Russell Higuchi of the University of CA at Berkeley become the…
On Sept. 24, 1984 the Hatch-Waxman Act (Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act) was passed to…
On Sept. 10, 1984, geneticist Alec Jeffreys, and technician Vicky Wilson at the University of Leicester in England…
On Sept. 1, 1984, with the enactment of P.L. 98-369 by the U.S. Congress, coverage under Part B…
On Jun. 6, 1984, the wave of interest in agricultural biotechnology reached the U.S. Congress when a House-Senate…
On May 23, 1984, U.S. Surgeon General reported that there was “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to…
On May 17, 1984, Federal District Court Judge John J. Sirica temporarily halts all federally funded experiments involving…
On May 2, 1984, the new UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Centerï¾’s original three-story cancer research building opened. In…
On Apr. 23, 1984, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) scientist, Dr. Robert C. Gallo, reported the isolation of…
In 1984, the American Chemical Society (ACS) awarded the Priestley Medal to Linus Pauling ‘for his numerous contributions…
On Mar. 8, 1984, two articles describing the cloning of the T-Cell Receptor (TCR) by Tak Wah Mak…
On Mar. 6, 1984, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Margaret M. Heckler launched a new cancer prevention…
On Feb 14, 1984, the world’s first successful combined heart-liver transplant was performed in Pittsburgh at UPMC Children’s…
On Feb. 8, 1984, Elmer R. Pfefferkorn published his discovery that treatment of human fibroblasts with human recombinant…
On Jan. 1, 1984, a University of Iowa College of Medicine research team headed by Dr. Antonio Damasio…