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…
On Aug. 12, 1954, George P. Larrick becomes Commissioner of Food and Drugs. In 1937, he was responsible…
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, becomes the first person to run a…
On Apr. 26, 1954, the largest controlled Polio vaccine field trial in the history of medicine got under…
On Apr. 25, 1954, the Vaccine Advisory Committee of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now known as…
On Mar. 26, 1954, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei at the University of Minnesota performed the world’s first open-heart…
On Mar. 22, 1954, Dr. Jonas Salkﾒs team began giving inoculations of a commercially prepared vaccine to some…
On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of the new Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk…
In February 1954, first-, second- and third-grade students from five suburban schools were the first to be inoculated…
In 1954, the Priestley Medal was awarded to W. Albert Noyes, Jr. by the American Chemical Society “to…
In 1954, JOHNSON’S Baby Shampoo with NO MORE TEARS formula entered the market as the first mild and…
In 1954, Miller Pesticide Amendment spelled out procedures for setting safety limits for pesticide residues on raw agricultural…
In 1954, first large-scale radiological examination of food carried out by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when…
In 1954, John Franklin Enders and Thomas C. Peebles isolated measles virus from an 11-year-old boy, David Edmonston….
In 1954, surgeon Joseph Murray performed the first successful kidney transplant on identical twins at Peter Bent Brigham.
In 1954, John Enders, known as “the Father of Modern Vaccines” and Thomas Peebles isolated the measles virus…
In 1954, the National Rabies Control Activities Unit was established, providing a coordinated program for all aspects of…
In 1954, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., University of Michigan, directed field trials of Salk vaccine sponsored by NFIP….
In 1954, The McLaughlin Research Institute began with the arrival of Dr. Ernst Eichwald, recruited as a pathologist…
In 1955, the Iowa Lions Eye Bank was established at the University of Iowa Medical Center. In 1954,…
In 1954, D. Weinman and A.H Chandler suggested T. gondii transmission via consumption of undercooked meat. in 1956,…
In 1954, Dr. Mary Carpenter became the first female member of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) scientific staff…
In 1954, the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Child Development and Rehabilitation Center (CDRC), formerly known as…
In 1954, Linus Carl Pauling (B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, 1922) was awarded the Nobel Prize for…
In 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk and associates develop a potentially safe injectable vaccine against polio given to nearly…
On Dec. 17, 1953, Howard Hughes signed documents that created the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, formed with the…
On Dec. 7, 1953, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Dava Pharmaceuticals’ methotrexate oral tablet, an…
In October 1953, ground was broken for the first building of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, now…