On Apr. 29, 1987, University of California, Berkeley plant pathologist Steven Lindow field-tested genetically altered Pseudomonas syringae (known…
On Apr. 24, 1987, Advanced Genetic Sciences (AGS) sprayed Frostban on an acre of strawberry plants in Brentwood,…
In 1987, The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, one of the first formal postdoctoral research…
In 1987, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced revised regulations regarding Expanded Access (EA) to investigational…
In 1987, the FDA approved first Western blot blood test more specific HIV diagnostic test and AZT as…
In 1987, the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), discovered by David T. Wong, was given U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
In 1987, University of California, San Diego Alumnus Susumu Tonegawa was awarded he Nobel Prize for Physiology or…
In 1987, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Genentech’s drug tPA Activase (alteplase). Activase is a…
In 1987, Livermore biomedical researchers began studying human chromosome 19. At the same time, Los Alamos began efforts…
In 1987, Richard Lerner, chair of the Scripps Department of Molecular Biology, was appointed the research institute’s new…
In 1987, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), a University of Iowa spin-off company founded by Dr. Joseph Walder, established…
In 1987, Dr. Robert Thornburg at Iowa State University (ISU) prepared transgenic tobacco plants expressing a gene that…
In 1987, Eli Lilly and Company introduced Humulin insulin identical to that produced by the human body. Humulin…
In 1987, Boston Children’s Hospital researcher Lous Kunkel and his colleagues discovered the gene that causes Duchenne muscular…
In 1987, the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, now known as the Masonic Cancer Center, received National Cancer…
In 1987, the Case Cancer Center (Case CCC) at Case Western Reserve University was both founded and became…
In 1987, Drs. Patrick and Edith McGeer developed the groundbreaking concept that inflammation plays a role in the…
In 1987, construction was completed on the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research in Portland. The institute is…
In 1987, the University of Virginia Cancer Center (UVA), now known as the UVA Health Cancer Center, received…
In 1987, Dr. Gerald Nepom, the former director of the Virginia Mason Research Center, now known as the…
On Oct. 18, 1986, the Moffitt Cancer Center was dedicated. The center was established in 1981 by the…
In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ‘for the discovery…
On Jun. 5, 1986, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Hoffmann La Roche’s Interferon initially for…
On Jun. 5, 1986, Genzyme launched an Initial Public Offering (IPO) at $10 a share, and raised $28.3…
In May 1986, the vaccine Recombivax HB, which protects against hepatitis B infection, was approved for marketing in…
On Mar. 19, 1986, Eli Lilly acquired San Diego-based Hybritech for $300 million. Hybritech was a leading producer…
On Mar. 13, 1986, Microsoft Corporation, founded by Bill Gates Jr. and the late Paul Allen in 1975,…
On Feb. 4, 1986, Bristol-Myers announced it would acquire Genetic Systems for $310 million. Genetic Systems was a…
In February 1986, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Hybritech’s Tandem-R PSA assay (P850048) with calibration…
In 1986, the Visible Human Project® (VHP), an outgrowth of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Long-Range Plan,…