In 1980, faculty members in the Stanford University’s Department of Pharmacology publicly expressed their opposition to the proposed…
In May 1980, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) organized a task force to study…
In 1980, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on the association of Reye Syndrome…
In 1980, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Frederick Sanger and Walter Gilbert for “for…
In 1980, the U.S. Congress created the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), based in Atlanta,…
In 1980, The Holden Cancer Center at University of Iowa was founded with Richard L. DeGowin, M.D. appointed…
In 1980, Schering-Plough Animal Health introduced Intra-Trac vaccines for kennel cough in dogs. For years, Iowa State University…
In 1980, Trans Ova Genetics, now a Urus company, was founded under the vision of Dr. David Faber,…
In 1980, Sarepta Therapeutics was founded originally as AVI BioPharma. Today, Sarepta is on an urgent mission: engineer…
In 1980, three of Boston’s oldest and most prestigious Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals – the Peter Bent…
In 1980, the $2 million Gershenson Radiation Oncology Center (GROC) opened as a partnership between Wayne State University’s…
In 1980, The Mary Brigh Building, one of the Mayo’s largest expansion projects, opened. The addition added a…
In 1980, a group of scientists and industrialists concluded that the time had come to found a national…