The Health Programs Extension Act of 1980 was signed into law, extending National Cancer Institute authorization for 3 years
On Dec. 17, 1980, the Health Programs Extension Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-538), introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy,…
On Dec. 17, 1980, the Health Programs Extension Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-538), introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy,…
On Dec. 12, 1980, A bill to amend title 35 of the United States Code (H.R.6933, Public Law:…
On Dec. 12, 1980, the U.S. Senate passed Joint Resolution 213 which designated the National Institutes of Health’s…
On Nov. 7, 1980, Stanford University researchers Henry Kaplan and Lennart Olsson announced they had created cells to…
On Oct. 14, 1980, the first biotechnology public offering — Genentech makes history on Wall Street when just…
On Oct. 10, 1980, The Nobel Foundation announced they had awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology…
On Jul. 9, 1980, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita, Jr. became the ninth director of the National Cancer Institute…
On Jun. 9, 1980, the rabies human diploid-cell vaccine (Imovax Rabies by Merieux, now Sanofi, and Wyvac by…
On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly certified the world free of naturally-occurring smallpox. Smallpox is an…
On Apr. 10, 1980, the Alzheimer’s Association was established. In 1979, Jerome H. Stone and representatives from several…
In 1980, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Frederick Sanger and Walter Gilbert for “for…
In 1980, autism appeared for the first time as a diagnosis in the third edition of the DSM…
In 1980, the Infant Formula Act is one of the most specific and detailed acts ever passed by…
In May 1980, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) organized a task force to study…
In 1980, The Holden Cancer Center at University of Iowa was founded with Richard L. DeGowin, M.D. appointed…
In 1980, Sarepta Therapeutics was founded originally as AVI BioPharma. Today, Sarepta is on an urgent mission: engineer…
In 1980, The Mary Brigh Building, one of the Mayo’s largest expansion projects, opened. The addition added a…
In 1980, McGill University researcher Dr. Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie developed Ganciclovir to treat or prevent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections….
In 1980, Genetic Systems was founded in Seattle as a monoclonal antibody-based diagnostic company by Robert Nowinski of…
In 1980, Dizhou Tong, also called Ti Chou Tung, and his colleagues in China isolated nuclei from the…
On May 10, 1979, ground was broken for the University of Southern Califrona Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital…
In 1979, the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer, p53, was identified by six groups of researchers…
In 1979, Modified radical mastectomy replaced radical mastectomy for breast cancer. The standard of care for patients with…
In 1979, early concern over the dangers of recombinant DNA has waned and the National Institutes of Health…
In 1979, Joan Steitz discovered snRNPs, RNAï¾–protein complexes in the cell’s nucleus that perform a crucial step in…
In 1979, Dr. Norman H. Cromwell of the Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, became acting director of…
In 1979, Dr. William Thurman took the helm of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) and helped establish…
In 1979, Centocor was founded – one of the nation’s first biotechnology companies best known for developing Remicade…
On Nov. 9, 1978, the first human testing of a biological therapy was conducted (alpha-interferon). The Cancer Research…
On Sept. 6, 1978, Genentech, the most successful of the new biotech start-up companies, announced that scientists at…