In 1938, the Iowa State University Research Foundation (ISURF) was established to manage the collection of intellectual property…
In 1938, University of Iowa researcher Elmer DeGowin developed the first reliable methods of preserving and shipping blood,…
In 1938, Dr. Armand Frappier, at the Institut de Microbiologie et d’Hygiene de Montreal, conducted the first studies…
In 1938, The Medical College of Virginia opened a new laboratory and outpatient clinic (A. D. Williams Memorial…
In 1938, Rolla Neil Harger of Indiana University School of Medicine collaborated with Robert Borkenstein of the Indiana…
On Jul. 1, 1947, U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran, Jr. awarded first grants-in-aid on the recommendation of the…
On Nov. 16, 1937, the U.S. Congress directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to give a full…
On Aug. 5, 1937, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Act, P.L. 244, 75th Congress, was signed by President…
On Apr. 29, 1937, U.S. Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas introduced H.R. 6767, “To promote research in the…
On Apr. 19, 1937, Perkin-Elmer was founded by Richard Perkin, a banker and Charles Elmer, a court reporter…
On Apr. 2, 1937, Senator Homer T. Bone of Washington introduced S. 2067, “Authorizing the Surgeon General of…
On Mar. 15, 1937, the world’s first blood bank was opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago by…
In 1937, Johnsonï¾ &ï¾ Johnson established Ortho Research Laboratories in Linden, New Jersey, to make women’s health products.
In 1937, Maurice C. Hall developed a technique, known as the “NIH swab,” to diagnose enterobiasis; it is…
On Aug. 19, 1938, Maurice C. Hall, Willard H. Wright and colleagues published Studies in Trichinoisis that demonstrated…
In 1937, Henry Klein, Carroll E. Palmer, John W. Knutson devised a Decayed Missing Filled (DMF) Index guide…
In 1937, Margaret Pittman, Sara E. Branham, and E. M. Sockrider showed the type specificity of meningococcus by…
In 1937, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937 was awarded to Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi Nagyrapolt “for…
In 1937, the first digital computer, built at Iowa State University by John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry,…
In 1937, the Rocky Mountain Laboratory became part of the National Institute of Health (NIH). During World War…
In 1937, Hoegemeyer Hybrids was founded by H. Chris Hoegemeyer and his son, Leonard when the science of…
In 1937, Johnson ï¾ &ï¾ Johnson expanded into Argentina and Brazil.
In 1937, Joseph Hamilton was the first to use radioactive tracers to study circulatory physiology. Using radioactive sodium,…
In 1937, Albert Sabin and Peter Olitsky demonstrated that the parasiteToxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) was an obligate intracellular…
On Dec. 24, 1936, John Lawrence, known as the “father of nuclear medicine,” treated a a 28-year-old patient…
On Apr. 6, 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt swore in Thomas Parran, Jr. as U.S. Surgeon General. Parran was…
In 1936, Albert Sabin and Peter Olitsky at the Rockefeller Institute successfully grew poliovirus in a culture of…
In 1936, Max Theiler, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale (and later the Rockefeller Institute), and…
In 1936, Sir Macfarlane Burnet discovered that influenza virus could be grown in embryonated hens’ eggs. This led…
In May 1935, Kenneth Lynch and William Atmar Smith from the Medical College of South Carolina published an…