UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation was Established
In 1945, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation was founded by a group…
In 1945, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation was founded by a group…
In 1945, June Lindsey joined W. H. Taylor’s x-ray crystallography team at the Cavendish Laboratory, home to the…
On Nov. 17, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote a letter to to Vannevar Bush, head of the…
On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…
In 1944, the the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to James B. Conant “to recognize distinguished…
On Jul. 1, 1944, the Public Health Service Act, P.L. 410, 78th Congress, provided that “The National Cancer…
On Jul. 1, 1944, the Public Health Service Act was codified and established the quarantine authority of the…
On Jun. 17, 1944, the Midwest Research Institute, now known as MRI Global, was incorporated. Today, MRIGlobal is…
On May. 1, 1944, Paul B. Dunbar, Ph.D., becomes Commissioner of Food and Drugs. His tenure as commissioner…
In 1944, Johnsonᅠ &ᅠ Johnson went public with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1944, Dr. Philip Levine, the discoverer of the human rH factor, joins Ortho Research Laboratories, creating the…
In 1944, Hans Asperger, a Viennese pediatrician, described ‘autistic psychopathy.’ Decades later, his name will become a diagnosis:…
In 1944, DNA was found by Oswald T. Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty to be the basic…
In 1944, the use of dried plasma became vital to treating wounded solders in World War II.
In 1944, the use of cell cultures for virus growth was discovered. This allowed viruses to be cultured…
In 1944, Joseph Erlanger, native of San Francisco and graduate of the University of California (B.Sc.), was awarded…
In 1944, Robert Woodruff who succeeded Asa Candler as president of The Coca-Cola Company, offered to underwrite the…
In 1944, Norman Borlaug participated in the Rockefeller Foundation’s pioneering technical assistance program in Mexico, where he was…
In 1944, the first protein separation using electrophoresis is performed by Dr. Maud Menten, one of the first…
In 1944, Canadian Premier Tommy Douglas, seeing the high cancer death rate in Saskatchewan, implemented free cancer treatment…
In 1944, the Baruch Center of Physical Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia was organized with a…
On Sept. 4, 1943, Dr. Carl Voegtlin resigned as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Voegtlin…
On Aug. 1, 1943, Roscoe Roy Spencer became the second director of the National Cancer Institute, when Voegtlin…
On Apr. 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann tested synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on himself. LSD-25, as originally known…
In 1943, Glenn H. Algire, using the transparent-chamber technique, demonstrated a method for making microscopic studies in vivo…
In 1943, Margaret Pittman began work on the intracerebral challenge potency assay for pertussis vaccine. The standardization effected…
In 1943, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) established at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
In 1943, penicillin first became mass-produced. Rediscovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, penicillin was capable of attacking many…
In 1943, Elizabeth Gambrell became the first women admitted to Emory’s School of Medicine.
In 1943, The Rockefeller Foundation, in collaboration with the Mexican government, initiates the Mexican Agricultural Program – the…