In 1970, immunologist Frank Dixon was appointed chair of the biomedical research operations at the Scripps Clinic and…
On Jul. 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, American astronauts, made history by becoming the first men…
In 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University was created through the merger of Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College…
In 1966, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed amantadine (marketed as Symmetrel) to Du Pont, a…
In 1966, Mark Hatfield served in the State Legislature from 1951-1957; was secretary of state from 1957-1959. He…
On Nov. 23, 1964, Dr. Michael DeBakey and his team performed the first successful coronary artery bypass graft…
In May 1964, Dr. John E. Buhler was named dean of the School of Dentistry. The College graduated…
In 1963, a group of physicians from Honolulu’s Straub Clinic and other civic leaders established the first organization…
in 1962, Iowa Methodist Medical Center established Iowa’s first hospital-based radiation oncology department and remains a leader in…
On Aug. 23, 1961, The Committee on the National Medal of Science was established by President John F….
On Sept. 8, 1960, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new permanent headquarters opened in Atlanta,…
In 1960, National Institute of Health grants allow the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon to acquire property and…
On Aug. 25, 1959, the National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress as a Presidential…
On May 4, 1959, the first major addition to the University of Washington Health Sciences Building, an eight-story,…
In 1959, Lester R. Sauvage, MD founded the Reconstructive Cardiovascular Research Laboratory as a branch of Providence Seattle…
In 1959, the Salk Institute was initially envisioned by Jonas Salk, M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine,…
On Jan. 6, 1958, the American Chemical Society announced that Ernest H. Volwiler had been named the recipient…
In 1958, Arvid Carlsson discovered that levodopa (L-Dopa) was effective in treating the symptoms of Parkinsonism. a treatment…
In 1955, geneticist Dr. James Bowman studied favism, the deficiency of glucose-6-dehydrogenase, in Iran. Favism is an acute…
On Dec. 17, 1953, Howard Hughes signed documents that created the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, formed with the…
In October 1953, ground was broken for the first building of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, now…
In 1953, Betty Delores Stough became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the Virginia Agricultural and…
In 1953, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was founded in La Jolla, California. For more than a…
In 1950, Drs. Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench at the Mayo Clinic, along with Tadeus Reichstein,…
On Oct. 9, 1949, the University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building was dedicated on the university’s Seattle campus….
In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…
In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
In 1948, Nestle of Switzerland acquired Alcon, and in 2002 Nestle conducted an initial public offering of 25%…
On Mar. 5, 1947, ground was broken for the new University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building. The new…
In 1946, fission-derived radioiodine became readily available as a by-product of the Manhattan project in Oak Ridge, TN….