In 1991, the world’s first superconducting cyclotron built to treat cancer was installed at the Gershenson Radiation Oncology…
In 1991, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), was…
On Oct. 1, 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project (HGP), a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department…
On Sept. 14, 1990, a four-year old girl, Ashanti DeSilva, became the first gene therapy patient. She had…
In 1990, the California Supreme Court rules in the case involving Seattle’s John Moore that a patient does…
In 1990, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported viral causes of gastroenteritis, helping identify…
In 1990, the Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU) in Winston-Salem received National Cancer Institute (NCI) comprehensive…
In 1990, Geneticist Mary-Claire King and her colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley discovered BRCA1, the first…
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 Apr. 17, 1989, World Hemophilia Day was started and the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) chose April…
On Jan. 19, 1989, a team of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the U.S. produced the…
In 1989, Karmanos Cancer Institute researcher Dr. Soule developed MCF-10, an immortal line of normal human breast cells….
In 1989, CFTR, the gene causing cystic fibrosis was discovered by researcher Lap-Chee Tsui at Toronto’s Hospital for…
In 1989, the State Office of Rural Health became part of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to…
In 1989, the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) Center for Ethics in Health Care was created to bring…
In 1988, Stanford Medicine researchers Irving Weissman and Mike McCune created an animal model that can be used…
On Aug. 15, 1988, a program advisory committee on the human genome was established to advise the National…
On Jun. 26, 1987, it was announced that the National Center for Health Statistics ï¾ (NCHS) had become an…
In 1987, The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, one of the first formal postdoctoral research…
In 1987, Livermore biomedical researchers began studying human chromosome 19. At the same time, Los Alamos began efforts…
In 1987, Eli Lilly and Company introduced Humulin insulin identical to that produced by the human body. Humulin…
In 1987, Boston Children’s Hospital researcher Lous Kunkel and his colleagues discovered the gene that causes Duchenne muscular…
In 1987, construction was completed on the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research in Portland. The institute is…
In 1987, the University of Virginia Cancer Center (UVA), now known as the UVA Health Cancer Center, received…
On Jun. 5, 1986, Genzyme launched an Initial Public Offering (IPO) at $10 a share, and raised $28.3…
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan designated the month of March as Hemophilia Awareness Month to bring attention to…
In 1986, The University of Utah Cancer program earned National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation as a Cancer Center,…
In 1986, Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston while deputy branch chief of the Sickle Cell Disease Branch at the…
On Nov. 20, 1985, the Health Research Extension Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-158) was signed into law by…