The Florida Sea Grant was established
In 1972, the Florida Sea Grant was established as a partnership of academia, government, and industry focused on…
In 1972, the Florida Sea Grant was established as a partnership of academia, government, and industry focused on…
In 1972, The CDC launched a national gonorrheaᅠcontrol program. Rates of gonorrhea decreased after the National Gonorrhea Control…
In 1972, the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Mills v. Board of Education…
In 1972, Dr. Susumu Ohno, writing in the Brookhaven Symposium on Biology in the article “So Much ‘Junk…
In 1972, the Red Cross called for a national blood policy to support standardized practices and end paid…
In 1972, the FDA’s new Bureau of Biologics began to regulate all 7000 U.S. blood and plasma centers….
In 1972, National Academy of Sciences released Genetic Vulnerability of Major Crops – a study prompted by the…
In 1972, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began a Preventative Medicine Residency (PMR/F) program…
In 1972, Washington University – St. Louis researchers Michel M. Ter-Pogossian, PhD; William Bernard, MD; and Henry G….
In 1972, Washington University ヨ St. Louis established one of the countryメs first adult bone marrow transplant programs,…
In 1972, positron emission tomography (PET) imaging was invented by researchers at Washington University ヨ St. Louis.
In 1972, a prototype linear accelerator at Washington University – St. Louis was produced by radiation clinicians and…
In 1972, the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, now known as the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI), was established in…
In 1972, The Albert Einstein Cancer Center (AECC) obtained NCI-designation and its first Cancer Center Support Grant. The…
In 1972, Roswell Park received NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center designation in 1972 and was the first institution in…
In 1972, The Wistar Institute was designated the first National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center in basic research…
In 1972, Christian Boehmer Anfinsen (M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1939) shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for…
In 1972, Gerald Maurice Edelman (M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1954) was was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize for…
In 1972, Cook County Hospital became the first hospital to use an all frozen blood banking system. This…
On Dec. 23, 1971, the National Cancer Act enacted by President Richard Nixon as part of the nation’s…
On Dec. 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon converted the Army’s former biological warfare facilities at Ft. Detrick,…
On Sept. 29, 1971, the artificial sweetener saccharin, included in FDA’s original GRAS list, was removed from the…
On Jun. 3, 1971, the MCSC School of Dental Medicine graduated its first class. Dr. Cathy Moss was…
On May 17, 1971, The Public Health Service’s Bureau of Radiological Health was transferred to the FDA.
On May 1, 1971, the Federal Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, more commonly known…
On Apr. 22, 1971, Combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR by Merck) as well as combined measles…
In 1971, the American Chemical Society announced the Priestley Medal was awarded to Frederick D. Rossini by the…
On Jan. 20, 1971, the Institute of Medicine, now the the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), began operations….
In 1971, the Food and Drug Administration approved using naloxone to treat overdoses. Naloxone is also referred to…
In 1971, Jane Wright became the first woman to be elected president of the New York Cancer Society….