In 1995, Information in National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Physician Data Query (PDQ) database became available on the World…
In 1995, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved tretinoin, a differentiating agent related to vitamin A,…
In 1995, Porfimer sodium, a light-sensitive drug that can be absorbed by tumors, was approved by the FDA,…
In 1995, The BRCA2 gene was mapped to chromosomal 13q. Just fifteen months later, Wooster et al.5 reported…
In 1995, the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT), funded by the Nationa Cancer Institute, was designed…
In 1995, Gene therapy, immune-system modulation and recombinantly produced antibodies enter the clinic in the war against cancer.
In 1995, the FDA declared cigarettes to be “drug delivery devices.” Restrictions were proposed on marketing and sales…
In 1995, a series of proposed reforms to reduce regulatory burden on pharmaceutical manufacturers were announced, including an…
In 1995, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP), American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Association of Family…
In 1995, University of Alberta plant researcher Gary Stringam discovered a blackleg resistant gene to develop the Quantum…
In 1995, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ‘discoveries concering the genetic control…
In 1995, scientists cloned the tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, inherited genetic mutations that can predict an…
In 1995, the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, named after Representative Jay Dickey (R) from Arkansas, was passed by the U.S….
In 1995, the first department of bioengineering in the U.S. was established at the University of California, San…
In 1995, Edward B. Lewis, Caltech graduate (Ph.D. 1942) and former faculty member, was awarded the Nobel Prize…
In 1995, Southern California Biomedical Council (SCBC), was founded with support from Rebuild LA (RLA) under its second…
In 1995, Bristol-Myers’ Wallingford, Connecticut facility was named the Richard L. Gelb Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Development…
In 1995, the Public Health Service (PHS) published guidelines for zidovudine (ZDV) used to reduce perinatal human immunodeficiency…
In 1995, the Emerging Infections Program (EIP) was established as a collaboration between 10 state health departments, their…
In 1995, the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience opened at Georgia Tech to build a…
In 1995, The National Sarcoidosis Society was established by Ms Glenda Fulton, a 33 year old survivor of…
In 1995, Brigham and Women’s surgeons performed the first triple-organ transplant in the U.S., removing three organs from…