Kenneth Millo Endicott became the fifth director of the National Cancer Institute
On Jul. 1, 1960, Kenneth Millo Endicott became the fifth director of the National Cancer Institute, serving until…
On Jul. 1, 1960, Kenneth Millo Endicott became the fifth director of the National Cancer Institute, serving until…
In 1960, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Wallace R. Brode by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In Jun. 1960, the U.S. Congress passed an appropriations bill that included funding for a Federal Insect Laboratory…
On Mar. 9, 1960, In Seattle the world’s first long-term dialysis patient Clyde Shields was treated on an…
On Mar. 9, 1960, Dr. Belding Scribner implanted the first Scribner Shunt in the arm of Clyde Shields…
In 1960, the U.S., the first successful attempts at designing a totally implantable pacemaker were reported by Drs….
In 1960, The Rockefeller and Ford Foundations establish, with the Philippine government, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)…
In 1960, chromosome abnormalities were associated with leukemias.
In 1960, The FDA approved Enovid as the first oral contraceptive available in the U.S.
In 1960, the U.S. Surgeon General, in response to substantial morbidity and mortality during the 1957-58 pandemic, recommends…
In 1960, Sam, a lively four-year-old pointer with a transplanted heart valve, was named research dog hero of…
In 1960 Dr. Roy Cohn, MD of Stanford Medicine performed the first kidney transplant in California.
In 1960, the University of California, San Diego department of biology was officially founded. The department was later…
In 1960, a $5.6 million dollar expansion project was initiated and consisted of two five-story wings attached to…
In 1960, the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) TB control and clinical research program was transferred to the…
In 1960, the first implantable cardiac pacemaker was developed at Beth Israel Hospital (now part of Beth Israel…
In 1960, Dana-Farber researchers developed the means to collect, preserve and transfuse platelets to control bleeding.
In 1960, Massachusetts General Hospital clinicians became the first to use proton beam therapy to treat tumors of…
In 1960, Medtronic’s founders read an article about the implantable pulse generator with interest and soon contacted the…
In 1960, The Eppley Cancer Center, now a National Cancer Institute Laboratory Cancer Research Center, began in the…
In 1960, Toronto researchers James Edgar Till and Ernest Armstrong モBunï¾” McCulloch demonstrated the properties of stem cells,…
In 1960, The Department of Nursing Education becomes the University of Oregon School of Nursing in Portland within…
In 1960, National Institute of Health grants allow the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon to acquire property and…
In 1960, The Medical College of Virginia Pharmacy curriculum was extended to five years.
In 1960, Waclaw Szybalski joined the McArdle Laboratory at UW-Madison and started pioneering studies.
In 1960, the construction of the first McArdle building resulted from a gift by Michael W. McArdle. Dr….
In 1960, University of California Radiation Laboratory (Livermore) researchers, in a groundbreaking application of computers to study biology,…
On Nov. 16, 1959, Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan), an alkylating agent designed to improve the selectivity of cancer drugs, was…
On Nov. 9, 1959, at the instruction of Arthur S. Flemming, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare,…
On Oct. 9, 1959, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) transplanted its first organ, just the 18th successful…