In 1966, the Drug Efficacy Study of the National Research Council’s Division of Medical Sciences, which was tasked…
In 1966, Mark Hatfield served in the Oregon State Legislature from 1951-1957; was secretary of state from 1957-1959….
In 1966, a group of St. Jude patients were the first acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients to ever…
In 1966, Kimishige (“Kimi”) Ishizaka, along with his wife Teruko (‘Terry’) Ishizaka, first described a new antibody isotype:…
On Sept. 9, 1965, Simon Fraser University was founded. The university is named after Simon Fraser, loyalist, fur…
In 1965, The Hutch Award’s was created in honor of the late Fred Hutchinson, the courageous and inspirational…
On Nov. 23, 1964, Dr. Michael DeBakey and Jimmy Howell performed the first successful coronary artery bypass graft…
On Nov. 12, 1964, Fred Hutchinson, a standout pitcher at Seattle’s Franklin High School and ten year pitching…
On Jun. 20, 1964, a team of researchers led by Dr. Thomas Brock, then a professor at the…
On Jun. 1, 1964, the Mini-1 dialysis machine was delivered to the University of Washington (UW) Hospital and…
On Jan. 16, 1964, a team of doctors led by Dr. James D. Hardy, professor of surgery and…
In 1964, a new herpesvirus, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), was discovered in cultured tumor cells derived from a Burkitt…
In 1964, the anticancer drug melphalan (L-PAM) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
In 1964, Dr. Petar Alaupovic from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) created a classification and naming system…
On Dec. 30, 1963, Dr. Hans Neurath and colleagues at the University of Washington (UW) reported the chemical…
In 1963, a group of physicians from Honolulu’s Straub Clinic and other civic leaders established the first organization…
In 1963, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the…
In 1963, Australian pathologist R.D.K. Reye first described this syndrome. National surveillance led to strict warnings regarding aspirin…
In 1963, The Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of Greater New York Study began. HIP was the first randomized…
On Feb. 4, 1962, St.ﾠ Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened it’s doors in front of a crowd of…
On Jan. 9, 1962, the Seattle Artificial Kidney Center, now known as the Northwest Kidney Centers opened its…
In 1962, the first paper on ‘cytochrome P450’ (P450) was published. It reported the hemoprotein nature of ‘microsomal…
In 1962, The Texas Heart Institute was founded by world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooley. Today, the…
On Mar. 1, 1961, the first successful single-channel cochlear implant was performed by Dr. William House and John…
On Jan. 12, 1961, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) established the Laboratory of Viral Oncology, a new intramural…
On Sept. 8, 1960, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new permanent headquarters opened in Atlanta,…
On Mar. 9, 1960, In Seattle the world’s first long-term dialysis patient Clyde Shields was treated on an…
On Mar. 9, 1960, Dr. Belding Scribner implanted the first Scribner Shunt in the arm of Clyde Shields…
In 1960, The Eppley Cancer Center, now a National Cancer Institute Laboratory Cancer Research Center, began in the…
In 1960, National Institute of Health grants allow the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon to acquire property and…