On Dec. 17, 1953, Howard Hughes signed documents that created the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, formed with the…
On Dec. 7, 1953, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved methotrexate, an antimetabolite derived from folic…
In October 1953, ground was broken for the first building of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, now…
On Jul. 30, 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration was official with the Small Business Act, but it…
On Jul. 2, 1953, the National Cancer Institute inaugurated a full-scale clinical research program in the new Clinical…
On May 22, 1953, thre yellow fever vaccine (Merrell National Labs) was first licensed in the U.S.
On May 16, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk initiated the first community-based pilot trial of the Polio vaccine in…
On Apr. 25, 1953, Nature published James Watson’s and Francis Crick’s 900-word manuscript describing the double helical structure…
On Apr. 11, 1953, the Federal Security Agency (FSA) becomes the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare…
On Mar. 28, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team published a landmark article in the Journal of…
On Mar. 15, 1953, the day following his 74th birthday, Albert Einstein formally agreed to permit his name…
On Mar. 1, 1953, the University of California Radiation Laboratory, now known as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
On Feb. 28, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced the discovery of the double helical structure of…
On Jan. 27, 1953, the Cancer Research Institute was founded by Helen Coley Nauts, and is the worldﾒs…
On Jan. 26, 1953, World Leprosy Day was established by Raoul Follereau a French writer and journalist. This…
In 1957, the AABB formed a national blood clearinghouse to monitor the implementation of standards for blood banking….
In 1953, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was founded in La Jolla, California. For more than a…
In 1953, University of Alberta chemist Ray Lemieux, along with George Huber, announced the synthesis of sucrose for…
In 1953, Quinton Instruments was founded by University of Washington biomedical engineer Wayne Quinton with the initial focus…
In 1953, Betty Delores Stough became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the Virginia Agricultural and…
In 1953, the General Assembly of South Carolina passed an act that authorized the development of a school…
In 1953, Dr. Heinz E. Lehmann and Dr. G. Hanrahan of Montreal conducted the first clinical trial of…
In 1953, Coriell Institute for Medical Research is an internationally known, non-profit, biomedical research institution headquartered in Camden,…
In 1953, Lewis L. Coriell worked with Camden City business and civic leaders to charter the South Jersey…
In 1953, Medtronic was founded as a medical equipment repair shop by Earl Bakken and his brother-in-law, Palmer…
In 1953, national incidence reporting began in the U.S., with documented cases and operational data from each reporting…
In 1953, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first transmission of rabies by…
In 1953, Yale established the first pharmacology department in the U.S. to focus on cancer chemotherapy and cancer…
In 1953, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids (adult formulation) were first licensed in the U.S., after the concentration of…
In 1953, the U.S. Congress enacted the Factory Inspection Amendment which clarified previous law and required the U.S….