In 1973, the Ohio State University Cancer Center (OSUCCC) was established in Columbus. The patient care arm of…
In 1973, Penn Medicine’s Cancer Center was formally established by a dedicated group of cancer specialists committed to…
In 1973, the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center received National Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer…
In 1973, the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, now the University of Southern California Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Center…
In 1973, the Comprehensive Cancer Center for the State of Florida was founded. The Center, now the Sylvester…
In 1973, the Norris Cancer Center was designated a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of…
In 1973, UChicago established the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC), receiving its initial designation as a…
In 1972, a prototype linear accelerator at Washington University – St. Louis was produced by radiation clinicians and…
In 1972, The Albert Einstein Cancer Center (AECC), now known as Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC), obtained…
In 1972, The Wistar Institute was designated the first National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center in basic research…
In 1971, the Public Health Service (PHS) Bureau of Radiological Health was transferred to U.S. Food and Drug…
In 1965, The Hutch Award’s was created in honor of the late Fred Hutchinson, the courageous and inspirational…
On Nov. 12, 1964, Fred Hutchinson, a standout pitcher at Seattle’s Franklin High School and ten year pitching…
On Jan. 16, 1964, Dr. Charles T. Dotter at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), considered the father…
In 1963, The Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of Greater New York Study began. HIP was the first randomized…
On Jun. 1, 1962, Kurt Amplatz and Richard Harner published “A New Subclavian Artery Catheterization Technic” in Radiology….
in 1962, Iowa Methodist Medical Center established Iowa’s first hospital-based radiation oncology department and remains a leader in…
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, Deinococcus (Micrococcus) radiodurans strain R1 (ATCC BAA-816), the most radiation-resistant organisms yet discovered, was first reported…
In 1954, first large-scale radiological examination of food carried out by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when…
On Mar. 1, 1953, the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UC Berkeley), now known as the Lawrence Livermore…
In 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted a series of experiments at the Carnegie Institute of Washington…
In 1952, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Samuel C. Lind by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
On Jun. 1, 1951, the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago opened its…
On Nov. 2, 1949, Sandia Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric, took over management of Sandia…
In 1947, the Southeastern Michigan Division of the American Cancer Society created the Michigan Cancer Foundation to comply…
In 1946, fission-derived radioiodine became readily available as a by-product of the Manhattan project in Oak Ridge, TN….
In 1945, W. Ray Bryan, Michael B. Shimkin, Howard B. Andervont, Herbert Kahler and Thelma B. Dunn published…
In 1945, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation was founded by a group…