In 1983, the Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) was uncovered by the use of restriction endonucleases which cleave…
In 1983, the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Resources, Centers and Community Activities was renamed the Division of…
In 1983, the Community Clinical Oncology Program, an National Cancer Institute (NCI) resource that links community-based physicians with…
In 1983, the Biocatalysis Research Group, known informally as the ‘Iowa Biocats’ was established at University of Iowa….
In 1983, a team of researchers, led by Dr. James Gusella from Harvard Medical School, announced they had…
In 1983, Henri Termeer became president of Genzyme Corporation. Termeer was previously a senior executive Baxter. Serving as…
In 1983, the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) is a public, non-profit corporation chartered by the State of…
In 1983, the Massey Cancer Center opened under the direction of Dr. Walter Lawrence Jr., a surgeon and…
In 1983, Hollister-Stier Laboratories became a division of the Miles Pharmaceutical Group. Hollister-Stier Laboratories, located in Spokane, was…
In 1983, the National Cancer Institute formed the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control to accelerate the science…
On Dec. 16,, 1982, the National Cancer Institute purchased what is now the R. A. Bloch International Cancer…
On Dec. 10, 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided an update on AIDS…
On Oct. 5, 1982, Johnson & Johnson, the parent company of McNeil, issued a nationwide recall of Tylenol…
On Sept. 29, 1982. the first of seven victims died after taking a capsule of Extra-Strength Tylenol. On…
On Jul. 27, 1982, a meeting in Washington, DC, attended by federal officials, university researchers, community activists, and…
On Jan. 21, 1982, C. Everett Koop was appointed U.S. Surgeon General by President Ronald Reagan. In 1984,…
In 1982, Richard D. Palmiter at the University of Washington scientists created first “transgenic mouse” in collaboration with…
In 1982, the first major DNA sequence databases were established in the U.S. (GenBank) and Germany. GenBank ®…
In 1982, the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Physician Data Query (PDQ) cancer information database went online. PDQ is…
In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a publication, known as the Redbook, that described the…
On Oct. 24, 1988, the first lupus awareness observance which occurred in 1977 was moved to Oct. in…
In 1982, Merck Frosst Canada was created through the restructuring of Merck & Co., Charles E. Frosst, and…
In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an all-time low of measles cases,…
In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a national surveillance for tick-borne Lyme…
In 1982, the Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research (PICR) was established as an National Cancer Institute (NCI)…
In 1982, The Whitehead Institute, was founded as an independent research institution affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
In 1982, George Streisinger at the University of Oregon (UO) cloned the first vertebrate — a zebrafish. Streisinger…
In 1982, the Fred Hutch established the Cancer Prevention Program in Seattle, which has made key contributions to…
On Jun. 22, 1981, ZymoGenetics was founded by University of Washington professors Earl Davie and Benjamin Hall, and…
On Jun. 16, 1981, Dr. Thomas Waldmann helped treat the first patient with AIDS. In 2016, the Food…