First vaccination; English doctor injected a child with weakened strain of small pox to protect him from the disease
1883
Vaccination for children against rabies
1970
R. Arnon and M. Sela at the Weizmann Institute in Isreal proved injection of a peptide from a virus, disease, etc. can induce the production of antibodies that recognize the entire virus, disease
1970's
First attempts at developing a vaccine for Hepatitis
1980
First commercial vaccine for Hepatitis B
Developed by Phillipe Moupas at the Institue Pasteur Production and later by M. Hillerman at Merck
1982
First vaccine produced via genetic engineering (vaccines for diarrhea in pigs)
1982
First synthetic vaccine created by Louis Chedid (Institute Pasteur) and Michael Sela (Weizmann Institute) from diptheria toxin