Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory history

In 1904, the Carnegie Institution of Washington established the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor on an adjacent parcel.

In 1916, Clarence C. Little was among the first scientists to demonstrate a genetic component of cancer.

In 1921, the station was reorganized as the Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics.

Charles Davenport was also the founder and the first director of the International Federation of Eugenics Organizations in 1925.

E. Carleton MacDowell in 1928 discovered a strain of mouse called C58 that developed spontaneous leukemia – an early mouse model of cancer.

In 1933, Oscar Riddle isolated prolactin, the milk secretion hormone and Wilbur Swingle participated in the discovery of adrenocortical hormone, used to treat Addison's disease.

Davenport was director of the Carnegie Station from its inception until his retirement in 1934.

In 1935 the Carnegie Institution sent a team to review the ERO's work, and as a result the ERO was ordered to stop all work.

In 1939 the Institution withdrew funding for the ERO entirely, leading to its closure.

Milislav Demerec was named director of the Laboratory in 1941.

Abstracts from all CSHL scientific meetings covering the period from 1950 - present.

James D. Watson, a junior member of that group, would go on to deduce the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953 and help create the new field of molecular genetics before returning to Cold Spring Harbor as Director 15 years later.

11, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced that it had rescinded various honors from its former president, the 1962 Nobel Prize winner, Doctor James Watson.