In 1996, the Burnham Institute was named to honor the generosity of Roberta and Malin Burnham and their…
In 1996, Stanford Medicine developmental biologist Matthew Scott and a team at University of California, San Francisco discovered…
On Dec. 11, 1996, scientists from Stanford University and Affymetrix announced a new high-tech method that used a…
In 1996, the National Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC), a growing coalition of people battling cervical cancer and HPV…
In 1996, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). NORA…
In 1996, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found evidence of tobacco smoke exposure in…
In 1996, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched PulseNet, a national network of laboratories,…
In 1996, the University of Hawaii Cancer Center (UH) received National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designation. The Center’s mission is…
In 1996, the University of Maryland Cancer Center was renamed Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. In…
In 1996, the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) at Johns Hopkins University received National Cancer Institutes (NCI). The…
In 1996, the first genetically engineered mouse model showing amyloid plaques and dysfunctional learning and memory found in…
In 1996, Dr. Brenda Gallie identified the cause of drug-resistant childhood cancer of the retina, leading to an…
In 1996, The Sioux Valley Health System, now known as Sanford Health, was founded. In 2007, the Sioux…
In 1996, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996 was awarded jointly to St. Jude’s Peter C….
In 1996, Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute (THBI) was founded in Austin. The mission of the Texas Healthcare…
On Dec. 29, 1995, the Genentech drug Nutropin AQ ((somatropin) injection for subcutaneous use) was approved by the…
On Dec. 6, 1995, the U.S. Congress repealed the saccharin notice requirements. The store warning notice requirement was…
In Oct. 1995, 70 scientists from 20 countries met in Lexington, Kentucky to make a plan for mapping…
On Aug. 22, 1995, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the commercial production and distribution of the Bt…
On Jul. 30, 1995, Peter Karmanos generously gave a large donation to the cancer research, patient care and…
On Mar. 27, 1995, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter brokered a six-month cease-fire in Sudan to help eradicate…
On Jan. 1, 1995, Georgia’s Comprehensive Cancer Registry was established. The Registry became gold certified in 2002 following…
In 1995, The BRCA2 gene was mapped to chromosomal 13q. Just fifteen months later, Wooster et al. reported…
In 1995, AIDS researcher David D. Ho from the The Rockefeller University unlocked HIV replication that led to…
In 1995, scientists cloned the tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, inherited genetic mutations that can predict an…
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, 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…