On Aug. 5, 1937, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Act, P.L. 244, 75th U.S. Congress, was signed by…
On Mar. 15, 1937, the world’s first blood bank was opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago by…
In 1937, Albert Sabin and Peter Olitsky demonstrated that the parasiteToxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) was an obligate intracellular…
In 1937, Joseph Hamilton was the first to use radioactive tracers to study circulatory physiology. Using radioactive sodium,…
In 1937, the Rocky Mountain Laboratory became part of the National Institute of Health (NIH). During World War…
In 1935, The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UT) was founded as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, that promotes…
In 1934, William Perry Murphy, who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine for discoveries concerning liver therapy in…
In 1934, George Hoyt Whipple, a graduate of Yale University (A.B. 1900), was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize…
In 1933, Thomas Hunt Morgan was was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his chromosome…
In 1933, the Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State was established as the first research and consulting institute of…
In 1932, When Ellen Browning Scripps passed away at the age of 95, she left $300,000 (or the…
In 1932, Tompkins-McCaw Library at the Medical College of Virginia opened. Called the “college library” when the building…
In 1930, the Ransdell Act changed the name of the Hygienic Laboratory to National Institute (singular) of Health…
In 1930, Sara E. Branham identified a new organism, Neisseria flavescens, as a rare cause of meningitis and…
In 1930, Ralph Lillie demonstrated that the cause of psittacosis was a rickettsia-like organism (later placed in the…
In 1930, Ernest Everett Just, an African American biologist, became the first American to be invited to the…
In 1930, the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) was established, funded…
In 1929, Hoffman-La Roche outgrew its New York offices, prompting the development of a new plant in Nutley,…
In 1928, George Papanicolaou discovered that vaginal cell smears (the Pap smear) revealed the presence of cervical cancer….
In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming observed a culture of mold and discovered that the antibacterial substance was not…
In 1928, Dr. Eaton MacKay was invited from Stanford University to become the first director of research at…
In 1928, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, grew from the work of Dr. John Johnson, a biology professor at…
On Feb. 19, 1927, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) completed its first licensing agreement with the Quaker…
In 1927, The Danforth Foundation was a private, independent foundation established in 1927 by William H. Danforth founder…
In 1927, George Washington Carver invented a process for producing paints and stains from soybeans, and was issued…
In 1927 an alliance was formed between Roswell Garst and Henry Wallace to develop and promote hybrid seed…
In 1927, the iron lung was developed by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw at Harvard School of…
In 1926, a statue of Balto, the heroic lead dog in the Iditarod Trail, used to transport diphtheria…
In 1926, Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children was built on the Marquam Hill campus and becomes the first…
On Nov. 14, 1925, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents filed the charter for the Wisconsin Alumni…