In 1975, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center received National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation. Massey is the only…
In 1975, Georges Kohler and Cesar Milstein, showed how monoclonal antibodies can be generated by isolating individual fused…
In 1975, Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month originated when the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America and its…
In 1975, Stanford Medicine researchers discovered link between exercise and increased ‘good’ (HDL) cholesterol levels. The Coronary Primary…
In 1975, the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) was founded as a two-year Medical Education Program at Morehouse…
In 1975, Bristol-Myers researchers Miguel A. Ondetti and David W. Cushman created CAPOTEN (captopril) the first in a…
In 1975, Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, a pioneer in bone marrow transplantation, secured a permanent treatment home at…
On Jun. 2, 1974, the Burn Center at Harborview Medical Center received its first patients. It is now…
In 1974, Straub Medical Research Institute (SMRI) was renamed the Pacific Health Research Institute (PHRI) to better reflect…
In 1974, Albert Einstein Cancer Center’s Liver Research Center — now the interdisciplinary Marion Bessin Liver Research Center…
In 1974, the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center (OHSU) was formed as an independent institution under the…
In 1974, the Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU), became a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer center….
In 1974, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) chose the Pacific Health Research Institute (PHRI) to undertake the ‘Breast…
On Nov. 28, 1973, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Russell E. Train announced the final regulations to…
On Feb. 17, 1973, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the recall of 29,500 institutional-size cans of…
In 1973, Tsai-Fan Yu became the first woman to be appointed a full professor at Mount Sinai. She joined…
In 1973, The National surveillance of Reye syndrome began in 1973 when the Center for Disease Control and…
May 1972 was declared ‘National Arthritis Month’ by Congress and President Nixon.
In 1972, Livermore was the first to use flow cytometry to sort chromosomes. By the end of the…
In 1972, The Wistar Institute was designated the first National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center in basic research…
On Dec. 23, 1971, the National Cancer Act enacted by President Richard Nixon as part of the nation’s…
On Jan. 6, 1971, research scientists at the University of California Berkeley announced the first synthetic production of…
On May, 24, 2023, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that nearly 12 of every 100…
In 1971, John Vane discovered how aspirin worked, a finding that a daily low dose of aspirin prevents…
In 1971, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigated lead exposure in El Paso, Texas,…
In 1970, Dr. Colin McLeod became the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s (OMRF) first full-time president which marked a…
In 1970, University of Oklahoma’s first Health Sciences building was constructed in Oklahoma City. Today, this public university…
In 1970, Cisplatin, a platinum-containing anticancer compound with unique biologic effects, entered clinical trials. On Dec. 19, 1978,…
In 1970, immunologist Frank Dixon was appointed chair of the biomedical research operations at the Scripps Clinic and…
In 1970, the Southern Corn Leaf Blight (SCLB) sweeps across the South, destroying 15% of the U.S. corn…