On Oct. 19, 1956, the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute (PNDRI) was founded by William B. Hutchinson, Sr.,…
On Mar. 4, 1956, Sandia opened second laboratory and transferred personnel from Albuquerque to Livermore, California and began…
In 1956, the Virginia Mason Research Center, now known as Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), located…
On Jan. 1, 1956, Children’s Orthopedic Hospital opened the Northwest’s first Poison Control Center to advise callers on…
On Sept. 12, 1955, the first class at new Albert Einstein College of Medicine began with 3 men…
In 1955, The Mayo Clinic Heritage Hall museum opened in Rochester, Minnesota with a generous gift from John…
In 1954, Dr. Mary Carpenter became the first female member of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) scientific staff…
In 1955, the Iowa Lions Eye Bank was established at the University of Iowa Medical Center. In 1954,…
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…
On Mar. 15, 1953, the day following his 74th birthday, Albert Einstein formally agreed to permit his name…
In 1953, American chemists Harold Urey and Stanley Miller reported the production of biomolecules from simple gaseous starting…
In 1953, Betty Delores Stough became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the Virginia Agricultural and…
In 1953, Quinton Instruments was founded by University of Washington biomedical engineer Wayne Quinton with the initial focus…
In 1953, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was founded in La Jolla, California. For more than a…
On Aug. 26, 1952, Founders Day marks the date that Ernest Lawrence received permission to open up a…
In 1952, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation, 501(c)3 independent non-profit biomedical research organization, was founded.
In 1952, Stanford Medicine researchers discovered a new class of immune response genes, suggesting for the first time…
On Apr. 9, 1951, world boxing middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson defended his crown in Oklahoma City by…
From 1951 to 1976, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) treated some of the state’s sickest children, most…
On Dec. 17, 1950, five thousand Oklahomans attended an Open House for a newly dedicated OMRF research building….
On May 27, 1950, Washington University physician Evarts A. Graham, MD, and medical student Ernst Wynder published a…
On Nov. 2, 1949, Sandia Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric, took over management of Sandia…
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…
On Sept. 21, 1948, a 28-year-old woman at Saint Marys Hospital (Mayo Clinic) in Rochester, MN received the…
In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
On Mar. 5, 1947, ground was broken for the new University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building. The new…
In 1947, Governor Roy J. Turner launched a fund drive that spanned all 77 of Oklahoma’s counties. In…
On Oct. 2. 1946, the University of Washington (UW) formally opened a medical school as part of a…