FDA published the first Red Book (successor to 1949 “black book”)
In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a publication, known as the Redbook, that described the…
 
			In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a publication, known as the Redbook, that described the…
 
			On Oct. 24, 1988, the first lupus awareness observance which occurred in 1977 was moved to Oct. in…
 
			In 1982, Merck Frosst Canada was created through the restructuring of Merck & Co., Charles E. Frosst, and…
 
			In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an all-time low of measles cases,…
 
			In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a national surveillance for tick-borne Lyme…
 
			In 1982, the Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research (PICR) was established as an National Cancer Institute (NCI)…
 
			In 1982, The Whitehead Institute, was founded as an independent research institution affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
 
			In 1982, George Streisinger at the University of Oregon (UO) cloned the first vertebrate — a zebrafish. Streisinger…
 
			In 1982, the Fred Hutch established the Cancer Prevention Program in Seattle, which has made key contributions to…
 
			In 1982, the first major DNA sequence databases were established in the U.S. (GenBank) and Germany. GenBank ®…
 
			On Jun. 22, 1981, ZymoGenetics was founded by University of Washington professors Earl Davie and Benjamin Hall, and…
 
			On Jun. 16, 1981, Dr. Thomas Waldmann helped treat the first patient with AIDS. In 2016, the Food…
 
			On Jun. 8, 1981, Genzyme was founded by Sheridan Snyder, George M. Whitesides and scientist Henry Blair, with…
 
			On Jun. 5, 1981, Dr. Michael Gottlieb and colleagues of University of California at Los Angeles reported a…
 
			On May 10, 1981, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) performed the first successful fetal surgery, correcting a…
 
			On Apr. 23, 1981, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced they had for the first time successfully tested…
 
			On Jan. 27, 1981, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and…
 
			In 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began collecting reports of influenza outbreaks from…
 
			In 1981, the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, the Cancer Center received its National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designation. The…
 
			In 1981, John Wayne Cancer Institute (formerly known as the John Wayne Cancer Clinic) was founded to promote…
 
			In 1981, Hybritech issued its Initial Public Offering (IPO) and raised $12 million, and $33 million in a…
 
			In 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the International Health Program Office, now…
 
			In 1981, The University of Hawaii Cancer Center (UH Cancer Center) was founded. The UH Cancer Center’s mission…
 
			In 1981, Dr. Morris Reichlin joined the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) to head the Arthritis and Immunology…
 
			On Dec. 17, 1980, the Health Programs Extension Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-538), introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy,…
 
			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 Jun. 9, 1980, the rabies human diploid-cell vaccine (Imovax Rabies by Merieux, now Sanofi, and Wyvac by…
 
			On May 8, 1980, members of the World Heath Organization (WHO) in Geneva announced that “smallpox had been…