Medicine:1990s in medicine

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Short description: Listicle of events associated with medicine in the 90s

This is a list of events associated with medicine in the 1990s.

1990

October

1991

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann for their discoveries concerning “the function of single ion channels in cells”.[4]

1992

  • 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak
  • Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 386
  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs for their discoveries concerning “reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism”.[5]

1993

October

  • 11: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp for their discovery of “split genes”.[6]

1994

October

1995

October

1996

  • 1996 Odwalla E. coli outbreak

October

  • 07: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel for their discoveries concerning "the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"[9]

1997

October

  • 06: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Stanley B. Prusiner for his discovery of “Prions – a new biological principle of infection”.[10]

1998

  • 1998 Winter Olympics flu epidemic

September

  • 23: The first successful hand transplant is performed.[11]
  • 29: The Malaysia Nipah virus outbreak begins, leading to 265 confirmed cases and 105 deaths. The outbreak began in pig farms and caused the near collapse of Malaysia's pig farming industry. The outbreak was originally misidentified as being that of Japanese encephalitis, but was later discovered to be a previously unknown pathogen dubbed Nipah virus.[12] One million pigs were culled to stop the outbreak.[13]

October

1999

October

  • 11: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Günter Blobel for his discovery that “proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell”.[15]

December

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Human Genome Project Timeline" (in en). https://www.genome.gov/human-genome-project/timeline. 
  2. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1990/press-release/. 
  3. ↑ "2 American Transplant Pioneers Win Nobel Prize in Medicine (Published 1990)" (in en). 1990-10-09. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/09/science/2-american-transplant-pioneers-win-nobel-prize-in-medicine.html. 
  4. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1991/press-release/. 
  5. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1992/press-release/. 
  6. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1993/press-release/. 
  7. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1994/press-release/. 
  8. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1995/press-release/. 
  9. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1996/press-release/. 
  10. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1997/press-release/. 
  11. ↑ "Hand Transplant Declared Successful" (in en). https://www.science.org/content/article/hand-transplant-declared-successful. 
  12. ↑ Looi, Lai-Meng; Chua, Kaw-Bing (December 2007). "Lessons from the Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia". The Malaysian Journal of Pathology 29 (2): 63–67. ISSN 0126-8635. PMID 19108397. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19108397. 
  13. ↑ Arif, Mohamad Taha (August 16, 1999). "An Overview of the Nipah Virus Encephalitis Outbreak in Malaysia, September 1998 to May 1999". APEC 17th ISTWG Special Seminar on Emerging Infections in Asia Pacific: Proceedings: 3-5. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/IR/nistir6410.pdf. 
  14. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1998/press-release/. 
  15. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999" (in en-US). https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1999/press-release/. 
  16. ↑ Kojima, Masayasu; Hosoda, Hiroshi; Date, Yukari; Nakazato, Masamitsu; Matsuo, Hisayuki; Kangawa, Kenji (December 1999). "Ghrelin is a growth-hormone-releasing acylated peptide from stomach" (in en). Nature 402 (6762): 656–660. doi:10.1038/45230. ISSN 1476-4687. https://www.nature.com/articles/45230.