In 1959, the Salk Institute was initially envisioned by Jonas Salk, M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine,…
On Jan. 6, 1958, the American Chemical Society announced that Ernest H. Volwiler had been named the recipient…
In 1958, Arvid Carlsson discovered that levodopa (L-Dopa) was effective in treating the symptoms of Parkinsonism. a treatment…
On Sept. 10, 1957, the first Nevada Southern (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, aka UNLV) classes were held…
On Sept. 12, 1955, the first class at new Albert Einstein College of Medicine began with 3 men…
In 1955, geneticist Dr. James Bowman studied favism, the deficiency of glucose-6-dehydrogenase, in Iran. Favism is an acute…
On Dec. 17, 1953, Howard Hughes signed documents that created the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, formed with the…
In October 1953, ground was broken for the first building of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, now…
In 1953, Betty Delores Stough became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the Virginia Agricultural and…
In 1953, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was founded in La Jolla, California. For more than a…
In 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted a series of experiments at the Carnegie Institute of Washington…
On Oct. 26, 1951, the Durham-Humphrey Amendment, also known as the Prescription Drug Amendment, was signed into law…
In 1950, Drs. Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench at the Mayo Clinic, along with Tadeus Reichstein,…
On Oct. 9, 1949, the University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building was dedicated on the university’s Seattle campus….
In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…
In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
In 1948, Nestle of Switzerland acquired Alcon, and in 2002 Nestle conducted an initial public offering of 25%…
On Mar. 5, 1947, ground was broken for the new University of Washington’s Health Sciences Building. The new…
In 1946, fission-derived radioiodine became readily available as a by-product of the Manhattan project in Oak Ridge, TN….
In 1946, The Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital,Taplow, Berkshire, was built as a hospital for children which would…
In 1946, Dr. Leonidas Harris Berry became the first black physician on staff at Michael Reese Hospital in…
On Nov. 17, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote a letter to to Vannevar Bush, head of the…
On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…
On May. 1, 1944, Paul B. Dunbar, Ph.D., becomes Commissioner of Food and Drugs. His tenure as commissioner…
In 1942, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first Ph.D. was awarded to Nathan Sugarman in chemistry. In…
On Dec. 16, 1941, the Texas Biomedical Research Institute began as the scientific dream of its founder, Thomas…
In 1941, Texas State Cancer Hospital, now known as the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was…
In 1941, the Medical College of Virginia Hospital (MCV West Hospital) opened to national acclaim. The largest donation…
On Oct. 11, 1938, the Squibb Biological Laboratories, New Brunswick, New Jersey, established a new laboratory for the…
On Aug. 26, 1938, Robert Gross then Chief Resident in Surgery at Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, performed…