In 1982, the WISEST (Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science & Technology) began at the University of Alberta when…
In 1982, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Sune K. Bergstrom, Bengt I….
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…
In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a publication, known as the Redbook, that described the…
On Oct. 24, 1988, the first lupus awareness observance which occurred in 1977 was moved to Oct. in…
In 1982, Merck Frosst Canada was created through the restructuring of Merck & Co., Charles E. Frosst, and…
In 1982, the first hepatitis B viral vaccines, developed by Merck and also by the Pasteur Institute, were…
In 1982, Steven Lindow from the University of California, Berkeley, was the first to ask permission to deliberately…
In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an all-time low of measles cases,…
In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a national surveillance for tick-borne Lyme…
In 1982, University of Iowa otolaryngologists were the first in the U.S. to implant a multichannel cochlear implant….
In 1982, the Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research (PICR) was established as an National Cancer Institute (NCI)…
In 1982, The Whitehead Institute, was founded as an independent research institution affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
In 1982, Dr. Paul Kincade joined the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), and broke new ground time and…
In 1982, George Streisinger at the University of Oregon (UO) cloned the first vertebrate — a zebrafish. Streisinger…
In 1982, the Medical College of Virginia main hospital opened, a modern, 14-story, 539-bed facility costing in excess…
In 1982, the Fred Hutch established the Cancer Prevention Program in Seattle, which has made key contributions to…
On Dec. 4, 1981, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report on the National Plant Germplasm…
On Nov. 25, 1981, at the 21st session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Conference in Rome,…
On Nov. 23, 1981, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration licensed Quadrivalent groups A, C, Y, and W-135…
On Jun. 15, 1981, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored a conference in Bethesda, MD, on Kaposi’s Sarcoma…
On Jul. 2, 1981, the FDA approved vinblastine, a drug that binds to tubulin, the protein building block…
On Jul. 1, 1981, as a result of the enactment of Public Law 96-611 passed by the U.S….
In July 1981, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services assigned implementation of the Superfund Act to…
On Jun. 22, 1981, ZymoGenetics was founded by University of Washington professors Earl Davie and Benjamin Hall, and…