In 1972, the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, now Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute (PNDRI), was founded by Dr….
On Feb. 6, 1970, a report identified a coccidian parasite of cats with all non-feline warm blooded animals…
In 1969, the Michigan Cancer Foundation’s cancer registry began recording every incidence of cancer in southeastern Michigan. It…
In 1966, Mark Hatfield served in the State Legislature from 1951-1957; was secretary of state from 1957-1959. He…
In 1958, Hollister-Stier Laboratories became a subsidiary of Cutter Laboratories. Hollister-Stier Laboratories, located in Spokane, was founded by…
On May 29, 1956, Physio-Control was incorporated by Dr. K. William Edmark, a Seattle cardiovascular surgeon, who was…
On Mar. 4, 1956, Sandia opened second laboratory and transferred personnel from Albuquerque to Livermore, California and began…
In 1956, Deseret Pharmaceutical Co. founded by Dale Ballard, James L. Sorenson and Victor Cartwright, created a disposable…
In 1956, the Virginia Mason Research Center, now known as Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), located…
In 1955, The Mayo Clinic Heritage Hall museum opened in Rochester, Minnesota with a generous gift from John…
In 1953, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first transmission of rabies by…
On Aug. 26, 1952, Founders Day marks the date that Ernest Lawrence received permission to open up a…
On Jul. 16, 1952, a heat-phenol inactivated typhoid vaccine by Wyeth was licensed by the U.S. Food and…
In 1952, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published and…
On Feb. 8, 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco farmer from Virginia died from cervical cancer, and a scientist…
In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…
In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
Sandia began in 1945 as Z Division, the ordnance design, testing, and assembly arm of Los Alamos National…
In 1945, scientists Ralph W. G. Wyckoff of the University of Michigan Department of Epidemiology and Robley Williams…
On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…
In 1943, George Nicholas Papanicolaou and Herbert Traut published their landmark book “Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the…
In 1942, the first phage electron micrographs (EM) were published in 1940 in Germany and proved the particulate…
In 1942, Austrian physiatrist Karl Theodore Dussik published a paper on the medical application of ultrasonics in his…
In 1942, The Hormel Institute was founded by Jay C. Hormel in Austin to research and find a…
In 1941, Danish microbiologist A. Jost coined the term genetic engineering in a lecture on sexual reproduction in…
In 1941, Washington University ï¾– St. Louis received the first cyclotron installed at a U.S. academic medical center.
In 1941, the Medical College of Virginia Hospital (MCV West Hospital) opened to national acclaim. The largest donation…
On Nov. 11, 1938, Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary and the first person in the U.S.,…
In 1938, Rolla Neil Harger of Indiana University School of Medicine collaborated with Robert Borkenstein of the Indiana…
On Aug. 5, 1937, Senate Bill 2067 (Public Law 244) established the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and made…