Several academic Biomedical Engineering programs trace their roots to the 1950s but were housed within traditional engineering departments.
Most were in electrical engineering programs since the initial medical devices were mostly electrical or focused on imaging..
In 1912, the Institute of Biomedical Science was founded in the United Kingdom.
The institute is still standing today and still regularly publishes works in the major breakthroughs in disease treatments and other breakthroughs in the field 117 years later..
Vaccines (1796)
Throughout the 1800s and early 1900s, various vaccinations were created to combat some of the world's deadliest diseases, including smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis, and cholera.
Over the course of 200 years, one of the deadliest diseases known to man – the smallpox – was wiped off the face of the earth..
The discovery of antibiotics stands as one of the most critical advances in medical history.
They were discovered in 1928 when Alexander Fleming returned home from vacation to find a petri dish on his workbench filled with a strain of mold that was not only thriving but also limiting the growth of bacteria..
950 BCE.
The world's oldest prosthetic devices are toes for amputees, made in ancient Egypt of wood and leather..
Major events in a virus pandemic
