The second Earth Day was celebrated by more than 225 million people
On Apr. 22, 1990, the second Earth Day was celebrated by more than 225 million people. The first…
On Apr. 22, 1990, the second Earth Day was celebrated by more than 225 million people. The first…
In 1990, responding to increasing illicit traffic, the U.S. Congress passed the Anabolic Steroid Act, which identified anabolic…
In 1990, BayBio, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in San Francisco, was founded by a consortium of universities,…
In 1990, Washington University – St. Louis physicians Ralph V. Clayman, MD, Lou Kavoussi, MD, and Nathaniel J….
On Jun. 1, 1989, the FDA approved Amgen’s Epogen/Procrit for the treatment of anemia associated with chronic renal…
On May 22, 1989, Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) performed…
In 1989, carboplatin, a drug related to cisplatin, was approved by the FDA for initial treatment of advanced…
In 1989, the National Cancer Institute initiated mechanism of supplementing research grants to encourage recruitment of minority scientists…
In 1989, the Administrative Supreme Court of the state of Hesse, West Germany, blocks the multinational chemical company…
In 1989, Montreal-born Sidney Altman won a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for their discovery of…
In 1989, the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association, now Life Science Washington, was founded by local biotechnology companies…
In 1989, Abbott Bioresearch Center was founded as the local Massachusetts site of Abbott Laboratories, adjacent to the…
On Dec. 22, 1988, Samuel Broder became the tenth director of the National Cancer Institute, serving until 1995….
In 1988, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Chronic Disease Division to target…
In 1988, the U.S. Congress enacted the National Space Grant College and Fellowship program. The National Space Grant…
In 1988, the International Cancer Information Center established a separate office in the National Cancer Institute Office of…
In 1988, Food and Drug Administration Act of 1988 officially established FDA as an agency of the Department…
In 1988, the FDA enacted accelerated regulatory process for products combating terminal diseases.
In 1988, the U.S. Postal Service proposes to ban mailings of microbe samples capable of causing diseases. Of…
In 1988, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) was established to provide compensation following a vaccine-related adverse…
In 1988, James C. Wang discovered DNA topoisomerases, which led to greater understanding of enzymesï¾’ role in biological…
In December 1987, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) sequences were discovered in the E. coli Escherichia…
On Oct. 24, 1987, the Office of Technology Development was established in the National Cancer Institute Office of…
In 1987, Siemens, now Sivantos, launched Telos, the world’s first remote control for hearing technology. Digital hearing aids…
In 1987, The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC) was founded by American Indian and Alaska Native…
On Jul. 23, 1986, the Recombinant hepatitis B vaccine (Recombivax HB by Merck) was licensed. Using recombinant DNA…
On June 12, 1986, Bristol-Myers opened a state-of-the-art research complex in Wallingford, Connecticut, designed to house more than…
In May 1986, the vaccine Recombivax HB, which protects against hepatitis B infection, was approved for marketing in…
On Mar. 13, 1986, Microsoft Corporation, founded by Bill Gates Jr. and the late Paul Allen in 1975,…
In 1886, the University of Wyoming (UW), located in Laramie, was founded in 1886, and in 1891 an…