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…
On Apr. 14, 1948, John Roderick Heller became the fourth and longest serving director of the National Cancer…
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…
On Aug. 28, 1946, Oklahoma’s Secretary of State Frank C. Carter granted the charter of the Oklahoma Medical…
On Aug. 3, 1946, the articles of incorporation were signed by Governor Roy J. Turner that established the…
On Jul. 12, 1945, the Sandia site began as Z Division, the ordnance design, testing, and assembly arm…
On Aug. 8, 1945, the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (SKI) was established. A gift of $4 million…
On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…
In 1942, the Medical Research Foundation (MRF) was founded by a group of Portland area businessmen and physicians…
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…
On Feb. 4, 1941, the Red Cross began a National Blood Donor Service to collect blood for the…
In 1941, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Thomas Midgley by the American Chemical Society “to recognize distinguished…
In 1941, Dr. Edward J. Baldes at the Mayo Clinic constructs a human centrifuge to simulate blackout, a…
In 1941, Washington University in St. Louis received the first cyclotron installed at a U.S. academic medical center….
On Oct. 31, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the first six buildings of the National Institutes of Health…
On Jul. 1, 1939, Storrs Agricultural School became the University of Connecticut. Many in the University community believed…
On Nov. 5, 1938, the British Columbia Cancer Institute, BC Cancer’s first cancer treatment centre officially opened in…
In 1938, the Iowa State University Research Foundation (ISURF) was established to manage the collection of intellectual property…
On Aug. 5, 1937, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Act, P.L. 244, 75th U.S. Congress, was signed by…
In 1933, the Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State was established as the first research and consulting institute of…
In 1932, the Tumor Institute of the Swedish Hospital opened its doors. Children’s Orthopedic Hospital Association, later known…