On Sept. 12, 1955, the first class at new Albert Einstein College of Medicine began with 3 men…
On Aug. 17, 1955, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the hiring of 48 temporary investigators…
In Jul. 1955, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) sprayed DDT as…
On Apr. 26, 1955, Officials first noticed an increase in reported polio cases in California. Soon it was…
On Apr. 12, 1955, the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh was…
On Apr. 12, 1955, a convocation was held at the University of Michigan (UM), where Dr. Thomas Francis…
In April 1955, Cutter Laboratories, located in Berkeley, California and one of several companies licensed by the U.S….
On Apr. 1, 1955, the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center was established in the institute…
On Feb. 3, 1955, the first Citizens Advisory Committee met in Washington, D.C. to assess the effectiveness of…
From 1955 through early 1963, millions of people were accidentally exposed to simian virus 40 (SV40) as a…
In 1955, TSRI’s modern beginnings date to the establishment of Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, when a major…
In 1955, a new Armed Forces Institute of Pathology building was built on the Walter Reed Army Medical…
In 1955, an extensive renovation began which included the construction of two buildings: Building 9, a three-story outpatient…
In 1955, by the time Alaska became a state in 1959, students could earn Ph.Ds at the university,…
On Apr. 28, 1955, The National Poliomyelitis Surveillance Program was established by the Surgeon General of the Public…
In 1955, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Charles A. Thomas by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In 1955, geneticist Dr. James Bowman studied favism, the deficiency of glucose-6-dehydrogenase, in Iran. Favism is an acute…
In 1955, the new Cook County Hospital central diagnostic x-ray department opened with the worldﾒs first radiographic rooms…
In 1955, The National Cancer Chemotherapy Program was initiated. It was administered and integrated by the Division of…
In 1955, The Mayo Clinic Heritage Hall museum opened in Rochester, Minnesota with a generous gift from John…
In 1955, Drs. Roy Hertz and Min Chiu Li discovered that the same methotrexate treatment alone could cure…
In 1955, Edward Robitzek, Irving Selikoff, Walsh McDermott and Carl Muschenheim, The Hoffmann-La Roche Research Laboratories, Squibb Institute…
In 1955, the NCIﾒs Cooperative Group Program for clinical research was established in 1955 and has grown to…
In 1955, Canada contributed to the safe cultivation of the poliovirus, using Medium 199, and an incubation process…
In 1955, The Scripps Research Institute’s modern beginnings date to the establishment of Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation,…
In 1955, the Division of Biologics Control (DBS) became an independent entity within the National Institutes of Health…
In 1955, new doors were opened as the Medical College of Virginia graduated its first African-American student, Jean…
In 1955, Oveta Culp Hobby, the first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) appointed a committee of…
In 1955, Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was approved for medical use in the U.S. Chloroquine was discovered in 1934 by…
In 1955, the Polio Vaccination Assistance Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress, the first federal involvement in…