In 1986, Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston while deputy branch chief of the Sickle Cell Disease Branch at the…
In 1951, the FDA approved the use of antibiotics on animals. In 1943, farmers in the U.S. found…
On Jul. 4, 1949, Sir Alexander Fleming, the scientist who discovered penicillin, made his first visit to the…
In 1945, the Penicillin Amendment was passed in 1945, modeled on the Insulin Amendment. The former required batch…
In 1945, Cheplin Laboratories was renamed Bristol Laboratories and Frederic N. Schwartz was put in charge. Bristol-Myers bought…
In 1943, penicillin first became mass-produced. Rediscovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, penicillin was capable of attacking many…
In 1943, Bristol-Myers bought Cheplin Laboratoriesï¾—a Syracuse, New York, manufacturer of acidophilus milkï¾—and broke ground for a new…
In 1942, penicillin was mass-produced in microbes. Purification and first clinical use of penicillin would take more than…
In 1940, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and others in England discover how to purify and preserve penicillin. The…
In 1940, Squibb obtained cultures of penicillium notatum from the U.K. and developed deep tank fermentation processes for…
In 1940, Edard Abraham and Ernst Chain reported that an E. coli strain was able to inactivate penicillin…
In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming observed a culture of mold and discovered that the antibacterial substance was not…