On Dec. 3, 1992, The United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclaimed Dec. 3 as the International Day of…
On Nov. 2, 1992, the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center bridge opened. The 660-foot-long suspended pedestrian enclosed skybridge is…
On Oct. 27, 1992, the CDC was officially renamed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, retraining its initials…
On Oct. 12, 1992, Edmond Fisher and Edwin Krebs of University of Washington’s (UW) School of Medicine received…
On Oct. 7, 1992, all U.S. mammography facilities, except those managed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, must…
On Sept. 11, 1992, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began recommendations for folic acid…
On Sept. 3, 1992, PathoGenesis Corp. was founded by Robert Nowinski. The company, based in Seattle, developed an…
On Apr. 16, 1992, a controlled trial of showed low-dose methotrexate to be effective in resistant Juvenile rheumatoid…
On Feb. 28, 1992, Madigan Army Medical Center opened its 1.2 million square foot complex, the newest and…
On Feb. 27, 1992, Dr. Robert Adams and Dr. Virgil C. McKie of the Medical College of Georgia…
In Jan. 1922, James Bertram Collip produced the first insulin for humans. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
In 1992, University of Alberta (UAberta) researchers Kelly James and Richard Stein invented the first bionic leg, a…
In 1992, Dr. Gerald Edelman joined the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic faculty (TSRI). In addition to his…
In 1992, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded the Pacific Health Research Institute its largest and most enduring…
In 1992, The Indiana University (IU) Cancer Center, now known as the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive…
In 1992, the Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing building opened its doors. The building, located…
In 1992, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) President Peter O. Kohler, M.D. announced the appointment of Grover…
In 1992, the Oregon Cancer Center, later known as the OHSU Cancer Institute, was founded at Oregon Health…
In 1992, Dendreon was founded, and its lead product, Provenge, was an immunotherapy for prostate cancer. Dendreon filed…
On Sept. 4, 1991, Cell Therapeutics, also known as CTI BioPharma, was incorporated by two oncologists, Drs. James…
On Aug. 26, 1991, Cellpro announced its initial public offering. CellPro, founded in Bothell, Washington, developed the CEPRATE…
On Jun. 6, 1991, ICOS completed its IPO at at $8.00 per share for a total of $36…
On Mar. 4, 1991, researchers reported that post-operative (adjuvant) radiation therapy and chemotherapy were found to improve survival…
In March 1991, Immunex announced it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market Leukine…
On Feb. 22, 1991, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved Amgen’s two white…
On Jan. 4, 1991, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation and Scripps Memorial Hospital reaffiliate, announced they had merged…
In 1991, the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center received National Cancer Institute (NCI) comprehensive center designation. The…
In 1991, the University of Alaska is home to the Alaska Frozen Tissue Collection (AFTC) was founded as…
In 1991, the policy for protection of human subjects in research, promulgated in 1981 by the U.S. Food…
In 1991, the last case of indigenous polio in the Western Hemisphere occurred in a 5-year-old boy, Luis…