On Jun. 25, 1938, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with new provisions….
In 1938, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Marston T. Bogert by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In 1938, the Iowa State University Research Foundation (ISURF) was established to manage the collection of intellectual property…
In 1935, The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UT) was founded as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, that promotes…
In 1929, Hoffman-La Roche outgrew its New York offices, prompting the development of a new plant in Nutley,…
In 1928, the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy Drug Service was formed and began manufacturing a wide…
In 1917, the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy secretly produced bootleg aspirin after the war in Europe…
On Aug. 14, 1915, Hans Lundbeck founded a company in Copenhagen, Denmark, which dealt in everything from machinery…
On May 29, 1911, in U.S. v. Johnson, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1906 Pure Food and…
On Nov. 15, 1907, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) held its first annual meeting at the…
On May 7, 1907, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) was founded when eleven laboratory scientists and…
In 1905, the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy began dispensing medications for use in the University of…
In 1905, the Squibb sons sold the Bristol, Myers Company to Lowell M. Palmer and Theodore Weicker, and…
In 1903, the The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy was established, and the D. B. Daniel B….
In 1899, Charles E. Frosst & Co, was founded by Mr. Frosst and four associates who rapidly introduced…
On Aug. 10, 1897, German chemist Felix Hoffmann searching for something to relieve his father’s arthritis synthesized acetylsalicylic…
In 1894, German chemist Felix Hoffmann, one of the inventors of Aspirin, joined “Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer &…
In 1892, the Purdue Frederick Company was founded by medical doctors Dr. John Purdue Gray and George Frederick…
In 1885, the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy opened in the basement of the Medical Building, the…
In 1881, a trademark registration was added to the functions of the The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office…
On Oct. 6, 1852, the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the fall of…
In 1849, cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhardt founded Charles Pfizer & Company, a fine-chemicals business, in the…
In 1846, Lewis Caleb Beck’s published “Adulteration of Various Substances Used in Medicine and the Arts,” one of…
On Mar. 30, 1842, Dr. Crawford Long, an American physician and pharmacist in Jefferson, Georgia, used ether for…
On Dec. 21, 1820, eleven physicians met in Washington, D.C., to establish the U.S. Pharmacopeia, the first compendium…
On Jul. 31, 1790, the inventor Samuel Hopkins was awarded the first U.S. patent for a new method…