In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
On Jan. 1, 1947, Jesse P. Greenstein of the NCI summed up 20 years of research in his…
In 1947, the Laboratory of Experimental Oncology (LEO) was founded as a collaborative effort between the city of…
In 1946, Lloyd Law of NCI introduced the L1210 murine leukemia cell line tumor used in the cancer…
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…
On Jul. 1, 1944, the Public Health Service Act, P.L. 410, 78th Congress, provided that “The National Cancer…
On Sept. 4, 1943, Dr. Carl Voegtlin resigned as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Voegtlin…
In 1943, Wilton R. Earle of NCI, who had in the 1930’s pioneered the process of growing cells…
On Aug. 1, 1940, the first issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) was published….
In 1939, Hugh G. Grady and Harold L. Stewart first identified the type II cell of the pulmonary…
On Jan. 13, 1938, Dr. Carl Voegtlin became the first director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), established…
In 1938, the National Advisory Cancer Council, created by the National Cancer Institute Act of Aug. 5, 1937,…
In 1938, Murray J. Shear from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) reported that a basic fraction of creosote…
On Aug. 5, 1937, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Act, P.L. 244, 75th Congress, was signed by President…
On Feb. 4, 1927, a decade before the National Cancer Institute (NCI) was established, Senator Matthew Neely (D)…
In 1911, the Institute for Cancer Research, now know as the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, was founded….