On Oct. 1, 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project (HGP), a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department…
On Sept. 14, 1990, a four-year old girl, Ashanti DeSilva, became the first gene therapy patient. She had…
On Mar. 9, 1990, President Bush appointed Antonia C. Novello as U.S. Surgeon General. She was the first…
In 1990, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established a Human Genome Center at Washington University School of…
In 1989, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) initiated mechanism of supplementing research grants to encourage recruitment of minority…
On Aug. 15, 1988, a program advisory committee on the human genome was established to advise the National…
On Mar. 2, 1988, the Landmarks Preservation Board officially designated the Seattle City Light Steam Plant building and…
In 1988, the National Cancer Institute journals Cancer Treatment Reports and Journal of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)…
In 1988, the International Cancer Information Center (ICIC) now part of the Cancer Information Service, was established within…
In 1988, the Food and Drug Administration Act by the U.S. Congress officially established the U.S. Food and…
In 1988, the Center for AIDS Research at Albert Einstein Cancer Center was funded by the National Institutes…
On Oct. 15, 1987, the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) from the National Cancer Institute…
On Jun. 26, 1987, it was announced that the National Center for Health Statistics ﾠ(NCHS) had become an…
In 1987, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the results of a study on…
In 1987, the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, now known as the Masonic Cancer Center, received National Cancer…
In 1987, The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center received National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation. CSHL researchers…
In 1987, the Case Cancer Center (Case CCC) at Case Western Reserve University was both founded and became…
On Nov. 14, 1986, the U.S. Congress created the National Vaccine Program (NVP) to coordinate the vaccine research…
In 1986, the human HER2 proto-oncogene was cloned. HER2 is also called neu and erbB2. This finding established…
In 1986, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Division of Injury Epidemiology and…
In 1986, Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston while deputy branch chief of the Sickle Cell Disease Branch at the…
In 1985, Federal courts ruled that private companies don’t need National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) permission for field…
In 1985, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised the case definition of AIDS to…
On Mar. 6, 1984, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Margaret M. Heckler launched a new cancer prevention…
In 1984, a policy statement regarding the relationship of National Cancer Institute (NCI), the pharmaceutical industry, and NCI-supported…
In 1984, the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) was selected as one of the original…
In 1983, The Meyer L. Prentis Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit now known as the Karmanos Cancer…
In 1983, the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Resources, Centers and Community Activities was renamed the Division of…
In 1983, the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee unanimously approved Lindow test. Stephen Lindow,…
On Mar. 3, 1982, a conference on the new HIV disease was held by the U.S. Public Health…