The Arkansas Science & Technology Authority was created
In 1983, the Arkansas Science & Technology Authority was created to bring the benefits of science and technology…
In 1983, the Arkansas Science & Technology Authority was created to bring the benefits of science and technology…
In 1983, Dr. Patricia E. Bath became the first woman to chair an ophthalmology residency program in the…
In 1983, Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of mobile…
In 1983, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the National AIDS Hotline (NAH) to…
In 1983, the Biocatalysis Research Group, known informally as the ‘Iowa Biocats’ was established at University of Iowa….
In 1983, a team of researchers, led by Dr. James Gusella from Harvard Medical School, announced they had…
In 1983, Henri Termeer became president of Genzyme Corporation. Termeer was previously a senior executive Baxter. Serving as…
In 1983, Bristol-Myers marketed VEPESID (etoposide) for cancer.
In 1983, Dr. Tak Wah Mak co-discovered the T-cell receptor and the gene that produces it. Dr. Mak…
In 1983, the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) is a public, non-profit corporation chartered by the State of…
In 1983, the Massey Cancer Center opened under the direction of Dr. Walter Lawrence Jr., a surgeon and…
In 1983, Hollister-Stier Laboratories became a division of the Miles Pharmaceutical Group. Hollister-Stier Laboratories, located in Spokane, was…
In 1983, Amgen scientists isolated the gene that creates EPO and filed a patent. Pioneering studies on erythropoietin…
In 1983, the National Cancer Institute formed the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control to accelerate the science…
In 1983, Kary Mullis, PhD, a scientist at the Cetus Corp., conceived of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as…
On Dec. 16,, 1982, the National Cancer Institute purchased what is now the R. A. Bloch International Cancer…
On Dec. 10, 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided an update on AIDS…
On Dec. 2, 1982, a team led by William DeVries, at the University of Utah, successfully implanted the…
On Nov. 5, 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published requirements of the tamper-resistant packaging (TRP)…
On Nov. 5, 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published infection control recommendation for…
On Oct. 28, 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Humulin, Eli Lily’s recombinant insulin made…
On Oct. 5, 1982, Johnson & Johnson, the parent company of McNeil, issued a nationwide recall of Tylenol…
On Sept. 29, 1982. the first of seven victims died after taking a capsule of Extra-Strength Tylenol. On…
On Jul. 27, 1982, a meeting in Washington, DC, attended by federal officials, university researchers, community activists, and…
On Jul. 15, 1982, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 413 cases of the…
On Jun. 30, 1982, persuasive evidence that the HIV disease was caused by an infectious agent was presented…
In 1982, The Priestley Medal was awarded to Bryce Crawford, Jr. by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
On Mar. 3, 1982, a conference on the new HIV disease was held by the U.S. Public Health…
On Jan. 21, 1982, C. Everett Koop was appointed U.S. Surgeon General by President Ronald Reagan. In 1984,…
On Jan. 15, 1982, the second AIDS patient was admitted to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…