In 1942, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first Ph.D. was awarded to Nathan Sugarman in chemistry. In…
On Dec. 16, 1941, the Texas Biomedical Research Institute began as the scientific dream of its founder, Thomas…
In 1941, Texas State Cancer Hospital, now known as the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was…
In 1941, the Medical College of Virginia Hospital (MCV West Hospital) opened to national acclaim. The largest donation…
On Jul. 1, 1939, Storrs Agricultural School became the University of Connecticut. Many in the University community believed…
On Oct. 11, 1938, the Squibb Biological Laboratories, New Brunswick, New Jersey, established a new laboratory for the…
On Aug. 26, 1938, Robert Gross then Chief Resident in Surgery at Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, performed…
On Jun. 25, 1938, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with new provisions….
In 1938, The Medical College of Virginia opened a new laboratory and outpatient clinic (A. D. Williams Memorial…
In 1938, the Iowa State University Research Foundation (ISURF) was established to manage the collection of intellectual property…
On Nov. 16, 1937, the U.S. Congress directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to give a full…
On Aug. 5, 1937, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Act, P.L. 244, 75th U.S. Congress, was signed by…
On Apr. 6, 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt swore in Thomas Parran, Jr. as U.S. Surgeon General. Parran was…
In 1934, George Hoyt Whipple, a graduate of Yale University (A.B. 1900), was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize…
In 1934, William Perry Murphy, who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine for discoveries concerning liver therapy in…
On Jun. 12, 1933, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate by New York Senator Royal S….
In 1933, Thomas Hunt Morgan was was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his chromosome…
In 1933, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended a complete revision of the obsolete 1906 Food and…
On Apr. 4, 1933, Evarts A. Graham, MD at Washington University – St. Louis performed the world’s first…
In 1932, When Ellen Browning Scripps passed away at the age of 95, she left $300,000 (or the…
In 1932, Tompkins-McCaw Library at the Medical College of Virginia opened. Called the “college library” when the building…
In 1932, the Tumor Institute of the Swedish Hospital opened its doors. Children’s Orthopedic Hospital Association, later known…
In 1930, the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) was established, funded…
In 1930, the Ransdell Act changed the name of the Hygienic Laboratory to National Institute (singular) of Health…
In 1930, Ernest Everett Just, an African American biologist, became the first American to be invited to the…
In 1929, Hoffman-La Roche outgrew its New York offices, prompting the development of a new plant in Nutley,…
In 1928, the sword symbol of the Americal Cancer Society (ASCC) came from a 1928 nationwide poster contest…
In 1928, Dr. Eaton MacKay was invited from Stanford University to become the first director of research at…
In 1928, The University of Oregon Medical School takes over operation of Doernbecher Hospital. Frank Doernbecher was a…
In 1926, a statue of Balto, the heroic lead dog in the Iditarod Trail, used to transport diphtheria…