On Dec. 8, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two milestone treatments, Casgevy and Lyfgenia,…
On Aug. 4, 2021, Humanigen announced analysis of results from its Phase 3 LIVE-AIR study of lenzilumab in…
On Jul. 17, 2018, the Keck School of Medicine of USC announced that it was leading a $26.5…
In 2001, human immunogenetics professor Dr. Gloria M. Dunston founded the National Human Genome Center at Howard University….
In 1995, Regina Benjamin, MD, a family doctor in the shrimping village of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, became…
In 1983, Dr. Patricia E. Bath became the first woman to chair an ophthalmology residency program in the…
In 1971, Jane Wright became the first woman to be elected president of the New York Cancer Society….
In 1955, geneticist Dr. James Bowman studied favism, the deficiency of glucose-6-dehydrogenase, in Iran. Favism is an acute…
In 1955, new doors were opened as the Medical College of Virginia graduated its first African-American student, Jean…
In 1951, Dr. Herman Branson co-authored a paper alongside Linus Pauling and Robert Corey, detailing the structure of…
In 1947, Dr. Marie Maynard Daly became the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry…
In 1939, embryologist E.E. Just published The Biology of the Cell Surface, and pioneered ideas about the importance…
In 1927, George Washington Carver invented a process for producing paints and stains from soybeans, and was issued…
On Mar. 3, 1920, Hugh Smith Cumming was appointed U.S. Surgeon General. Cumming retired as Surgeon General and…
In 1915, Alice Ball became the first African American and the first woman to graduate with a M.S….
In Jul. 1897, the Medical College of the State of South Carolina (MCSSC) Hospital and Training School for…
In 1897, Matilda Evans, M.D became the first African-American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina. In…
On Mar. 4, 1896, the South Carolina General Assembly enacted legislation establishing the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical…
In 1894, George Washington Carver, educator, scientist, business leader, and renown agriculturist received a B.S. from the Iowa…
On Jul. 9, 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, an African-American cardiologist, was the founder of Provident Hospital, the…
In 1893, Provident Hospital, the first non-segregated hospital in the U.S, was founded in Chicago by Dr. Daniel…
In 1870, Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was the first African-American woman to ever earn a medical degree…
In 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler graduated from the New England Female Medical College and becomes the first black…
In 1852, James McCune Smith, the first African American to hold a medical degree, was invited as a…
In 1837, Dr. James McCune Smith became the first African American to hold a medical degree. Smith, a…
On Dec. 13, 1769, the Royal Governor of New Hampshire issued a royal charter in the name of…