In 1953, Quinton Instruments was founded by University of Washington biomedical engineer Wayne Quinton with the initial focus…
In 1953, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was founded in La Jolla, California. For more than a…
In Oct. 1952, Dr. William McDowall Hammon of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health published…
On Aug. 26, 1952, Founders Day marks the date that Ernest Lawrence received permission to open up a…
On Jul. 16, 1952, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed a heat-phenol-inactivated whole-cell typhoid vaccine to…
On Jun. 12, 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk went to the D. T. Watson Home for Crippled Children (now…
In 1952, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published and…
In 1952, the summer of 1952 recorded 57,628 cases, the worst polio epidemic in U.S. history. This added…
In 1952, the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) was created by World Health Organization (WHO) to…
On Sept. 26, 1951, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Epidemic Intelligence Service…
On Jun. 1, 1951, the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago opened its…
On Apr. 9, 1951, world boxing middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson defended his crown in Oklahoma City by…
In March 1951, Dr. Herman Branson co-authored a paper alongside Linus Pauling and Robert Corey, detailing the structure…
On Feb. 8, 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco farmer from Virginia died from cervical cancer, and a scientist…
From 1951 to 1976, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) treated some of the state’s sickest children, most…
In 1951, Lewis L. Coriell whose history in polio research began during his residency at Children’s Hospital of…
On Dec. 17, 1950, five thousand Oklahomans attended an Open House for a newly dedicated OMRF research building….
On May 27, 1950, Washington University physician Evarts A. Graham, MD, and medical student Ernst Wynder published a…
On Oct. 9, 1949, the University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building was dedicated on the university’s Seattle campus….
In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…
On Apr. 7, 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded and is today the United Nations agency…
In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) Influenza Centre was established at the National Institute for Medical Research…
In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
On Jul. 1, 1947, the Communicable Disease Center (now the CDC) began its mission to combat malaria. The…
On Mar. 5, 1947, ground was broken for the new University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building. The new…
In 1947, Dr. Jonas Salk was recruited from the University of Michigan by Dr. William S. McEllroy, dean…
In 1947, during the seasonal flu epidemic, investigators determined that changes in the antigenic composition of circulating influenza…
In 1947, Governor Roy J. Turner launched a fund drive that spanned all 77 of Oklahoma’s counties. In…
On Aug. 28, 1946, Oklahoma’s Secretary of State Frank C. Carter granted the charter of the Oklahoma Medical…
On Aug. 3, 1946, the articles of incorporation were signed by Governor Roy J. Turner that established the…