On Jun. 29, 1995, researchers led by Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop at the University of Toronto announced they…
In 1995, autistic activist Temple Grandin published Thinking in Pictures: My Life Temple Grandin with Autism, considered a…
In 1994, the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders listed four subcategories within…
In 1994, Omeros Corp. was founded in Seattle as a biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing…
On Sept. 18, 1993, Dr. Judes Poirier discovered that apolipoprotein E was a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s…
In 1993, Patricia Limousin and Irene Martinez-Torres demonstrated the role of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in the pathophysiology…
On Jun. 25, 1992, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the National Center for…
In 1992, Dr. Gerald Edelman joined the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic faculty (TSRI). In addition to his…
In December 1987, the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), discovered by David T. Wong, received U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
In 1987, Drs. Patrick and Edith McGeer developed the groundbreaking concept that inflammation plays a role in the…
In 1987, construction was completed on the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research in Portland. The institute is…
On Sept. 9, 1986, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) co-sponsored the first National Conference…
In 1986, scientists independently identified the structure of a nerve cell receptor, now called CB1, which responded to…
On Mar. 4, 1985, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee M. Thomas announced final standards to cut…
On Jan. 1, 1984, a University of Iowa College of Medicine research team headed by Dr. Antonio Damasio…
In 1984, the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) was selected as one of the original…
On Oct. 3, 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation making the month of November as National Alzheimer’s…
On Feb. 7, 1983, Rita M. Lavelle, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program to clean…
In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a national surveillance for tick-borne Lyme…
In 1982, George Streisinger at the University of Oregon (UO) cloned the first vertebrate — a zebrafish. Streisinger…
On Nov. 23, 1981, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration licensed Quadrivalent groups A, C, Y, and W-135…
In 1981, Roger W. Sperry of the California Institute of Technology was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology…
In 1981, Dr. Alexa Canady became the first African American woman in the U.S. to become a neurosurgeon,…
On Apr. 10, 1980, the Alzheimer’s Association was established. In 1979, Jerome H. Stone and representatives from several…
In 1980, autism appeared for the first time as a diagnosis in the third edition of the DSM…
On Dec. 21, 1979, Stanford Medicine pharmacologist Avram Goldstein announced the discovery of dynorphin – a chemical in…
In 1979, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute on Aging (IOA) was created to improve the health of the…
In 1978, University of California, Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) scientist Choh Hao Li discovers Beta-endorphin, a substance produced in the…
In 1967, chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first observed in a captive deer in Colorado where it was…
On Mar. 7, 1977, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Bristol-Myers’ BICNU (carmustine), for the treatment of…