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, Kurt Amplatz performed one of the first percutaneous catheterization of the heart. Amplatz, M.D., who was…
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, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Rice University professors Richard Smalley, Robert Curl…
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On Dec. 6, 1995, the U.S. Congress repealed the saccharin notice requirements.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…
On Aug. 22, 1995, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the commercial production and distribution of the Bt…
On Aug. 1, 1985, Richard D. Klausner became the eleventh director of the National Cancer Institute, serving until…
On Jul. 30, 1995, Peter Karmanos generously gave a large donation to the cancer research, patient care and…
On May 15, 1995, the American Chemical Society announced Ernest L. Eliel as the 1996 Priestley Medal awardee…
On May 3, 1995, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved Genentech’s drug CellCept…
In 1995, President Bill Clinton proclaimed the first full week of April as National Public Health Week (NPHW)….
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.5 reported…
In 1995, the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT), funded by the Nationa Cancer Institute, was designed…
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, 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, Brigham and Women’s surgeons performed the first triple-organ transplant in the U.S., removing three organs from…