On Jan. 27, 1981, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and…
In 1981, Dr. Morris Reichlin joined the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) to head the Arthritis and Immunology…
In 1981, Dr. Alexa Canady became the first African American woman in the U.S. to become a neurosurgeon,…
In 1981, Imre Corp. (Immune Response Systems, Inc.) was founded in Seattle. The company developed the Prosorba Column,…
On Dec. 12, 1980, the U.S. Senate passed Joint Resolution 213 which designated the National Institutes of Health’s…
On Oct. 14, 1980, the first biotechnology public offering — Genentech makes history on Wall Street when just…
On Apr. 10, 1980, the Alzheimer’s Association was established. In 1979, Jerome H. Stone and representatives from several…
In 1980, autism appeared for the first time as a diagnosis in the third edition of the DSM…
In 1980, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on the association of Reye Syndrome…
In 1980, Sarepta Therapeutics was founded originally as AVI BioPharma. Today, Sarepta is on an urgent mission: engineer…
In 1980, three of Boston’s oldest and most prestigious Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals – the Peter Bent…
In 1980, The Mary Brigh Building, one of the Mayo’s largest expansion projects, opened. The addition added a…
In 1979, the Gladstone Institutes was founded from an endowment from J. David Gladstone, a self-made man who…
In 1979, Joan Steitz discovered snRNPs, RNAï¾–protein complexes in the cell’s nucleus that perform a crucial step in…
In 1979, Dr. Robert Sherwin and Dr. William Tamborlane from Yale University announced they had developed an insulin…
In 1979, Medtronic established a Heart Valves division and introduced the Medtronic Hall mechanical heart valve. This prosthetic…
In 1979, Centocor was founded – one of the nation’s first biotechnology companies best known for developing Remicade…
In 1979, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute on Aging (IOA) was created to improve the health of the…
On Oct. 3, 1978, the University of Washington Health Sciences Building was renamed the Magnuson Health Sciences Center….
On Sept. 6, 1978, Genentech, the most successful of the new biotech start-up companies, announced that scientists at…
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…
In 1978, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded the Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit with comprehensive status. Known…
On Aug. 31, 1977, in recognition of the seriousness of lupus and America’s commitment to its control, the…
In 1976, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Environmental Services Division revealed blood lead levels…
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…
In 1974, the Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU), became a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer center….