In 1993, Jon M. and Karen Huntsman donated $10 million to the University of Utah to establish a…
On Aug. 21, 1992, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved licensure of a second DTaP product, prepared…
On Oct. 9, 1991, Bristol-Myers’ VIDEX (didanosine) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the…
On Sept. 14, 1990, a four-year old girl, Ashanti DeSilva, became the first gene therapy patient. She had…
On Nov. 27, 1989, a surgical team at the University of Chicago Medical Center performed a live donor…
On May 22, 1989, Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) performed…
On Aug. 29, 1985, Dr. Jack Copeland, a cardiac surgeon at University Medical Center (now Banner—University Medical Center…
In 1984, The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Health Sciences became the School of Basic Health Sciences.
On Jun. 15, 1981, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored a conference in Bethesda, MD, on Kaposi’s Sarcoma…
On Jun. 5, 1981, Pneumocystis Pneumonia, Los Angeles, by Dr. Michael Gottlieb and colleagues of University of California…
In 1980, autism appeared for the first time as a diagnosis in the third edition of the DSM…
In 1980, Sarepta Therapeutics was founded originally as AVI BioPharma. It became a leader in the development and…
In 1979, Medtronic established a Heart Valves division and introduced the Medtronic Hall mechanical heart valve. This prosthetic…
In 1978, metastatic cells were shown to arise from pre-existing subpopulations of cells in primary tumors.
In 1978, Boston Children’s researcher Stuart Orkin and his team developed a new DNA sequencing technique for prenatal…
On Nov. 21, 1977, the first pneumococcal vaccine was licensed, containing 14 serotypes (of the 83 known serological…
In 1976, Albert Einstein Cancer Center researchers identified the mechanism of action of Taxol, one of the most…
In 1975, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center received NCI designatation.
In 1975, Lyme disease, an inflammatory disease caused by Gram-negative spirochetal bacteria and spread through a tick bite,…
In 1975, Georges Kohler and Cesar Milstein, showed how monoclonal antibodies can be generated by isolating individual fused…
On Nov. 28, 1973, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Russell E. Train announced the final regulations to…
May 1972 was declared ‘National Arthritis Month’ by Congress and President Nixon.
On May, 24, 2023, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that nearly 12 of every 100…
In 1969, the Lion’s Eye Bank of Washington, Northern Idaho and Alaska was established at the University of…
In 1966, a group of St. Jude patients were the first acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients to ever…
In September 1665, at the height of the great plague in London, more than 7,100 died in one…
On Aug. 30, 1964, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested help in removing “X-33 Water Repellent”…
In 1958, Arvid Carlsson discovered that levodopa (L-Dopa) was effective in treating the symptoms of Parkinsonism. a treatment…
In 1955, The Mayo Clinic Heritage Hall museum opened in Rochester, Minnesota with a generous gift from John…
In 1953, Betty Delores Stough became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the Virginia Agricultural and…