1977

1^st vaccine for pneumonia.

Guillemin, Schally & Yallow: Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for development of radioimmunoassays for peptides of hypothalmic hormones.

Human erythropoietin gene 1^st cloned by independent research teams: Miyake & Goldwasser (University of Chicago) & Yoshida & Miwa (University of Tokyo).

Burgess , Camakaris & Metcalf 1^st report ‘Purification & properties of colony- stimulating factor from mouse lung-conditioned medium’.

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