First adult live-donor liver transplant performed at University of Chicago Medical Center
On Nov. 27, 1989, a surgical team at the University of Chicago Medical Center performed a live donor…
On Nov. 27, 1989, a surgical team at the University of Chicago Medical Center performed a live donor…
On Nov. 24, 1989, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a nationwide recall of all over-the-counter…
In 1989, Deputy Health Minister Edwina Currie announced that most of the egg production in Britain was infected…
On Oct. 10, 1989, Ohio University (OU) announced that it had received a patent for a genetic engineering…
On Oct. 10, 1989, ICOS Corp. was founded by Robert Nowinski, Christopher Henney and George Rathmann with $33…
On Aug. 28, 1989, a second recombinant hepatitis B vaccine, Engerix-B (SmithKlineBeecham), was approved for use in the…
On May 24, 1989, Dr. Kyriacos Costa “K.C.” Nicolaou joined the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic faculty. Dr….
On May 22, 1989, Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) performed…
On Apr. 17, 1989, World Hemophilia Day was started and the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) chose April…
On Mar. 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11…
On Mar. 3, 1989, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bristol-Myers’ PARAPLATIN (carboplatin) for the treatment…
In Feb. 21, 1989, George Wesley was sentenced to 38 1/2 years to life in prison for the…
On Jan. 19, 1989, a team of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the U.S. produced the…
In 1989, the West Virginia high court ruled in favor of admitting DNA evidence. In 1984, geneticis Sir…
In 1989, transgenic fast-growing salmon were created. In 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a…
In 1989, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) was founded as a…
In 1989, Scripps Research Institute’s graduate program was launched, building on the institute’s strengths in the integration of…
In 1989, Stanford Medicine researchers discovered the ‘homing receptor,’ which guides white blood cells into the peripheral lymph…
In 1989, Thomas Cech from the University of Colorado in Boulder was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for…
In 1989, Connecticut Innovations (CI), created by the Connecticut Legislature, provides strategic capital and operational support to advanced…
In 1989, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established a World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating…
In 1989, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the National Laboratory Training Network to…
In 1989, researcher Judah Folkman and his team from Boston Children’s Hospital produced a synthetic compound that inhibited…
In 1989, Karmanos Cancer Institute researcher Dr. Soule developed MCF-10, an immortal line of normal human breast cells….
In 1989, researcher William J. Catalona, MD of Washington University – St. Louis began a study that established…
In 1989, CFTR, the gene causing cystic fibrosis was discovered by researcher Lap-Chee Tsui at Toronto’s Hospital for…
In 1989, the State Office of Rural Health became part of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to…
In 1989, the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) Center for Ethics in Health Care was created to bring…
In 1989, the Area Health Education Centers program was established with funding from the Oregon Legislature and later…
In 1989, Oregon Bioscience Association (OBA) was established as the Bioforum Foundation by a consortium of universities, public…