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 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…
In 1946, Dr. Leonidas Harris Berry became the first black physician on staff at Michael Reese Hospital in…
On Jan. 25, 1945, at 4:00 p.m., Grand Rapids, Michigan, achieved a historic milestone by becoming the inaugural…
In 1945, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation was founded by a group…
In 1945, the American Society for the Control of Cancer renamed American Cancer Society.
In 1945, W. Ray Bryan, Michael B. Shimkin, Howard B. Andervont, Herbert Kahler and Thelma B. Dunn published…
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, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, published the first clinical description of 11…
In 1943, George Nicholas Papanicolaou and Herbert Traut published their landmark book “Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the…
In 1943, The Detroit Institute for Cancer Research was incorporated with just $483 and 200 shares of General…
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 1942, Dr. William Hutchinson began a 47 year career in Seattle, Washington when he joined the Swedish…
In 1942, the first phage electron micrographs (EM) were published in 1940 in Germany and proved the particulate…
On Dec. 16, 1941, the Texas Biomedical Research Institute began as the scientific dream of its founder, Thomas…
On Feb. 4, 1941, the Red Cross began a National Blood Donor Service to collect blood for the…
In 1941, Danish microbiologist A. Jost coined the term genetic engineering in a lecture on sexual reproduction in…
In 1941, Washington University ﾖ St. Louis received the first cyclotron installed at a U.S. academic medical center.
In 1941, Texas State Cancer Hospital, now known as the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was…
In 1941, the Medical College of Virginia Hospital (MCV West Hospital) opened to national acclaim. The largest donation…
In 1940, the U.S. government established a national blood collection program. That same year the National Research Council…