2000s in medicine

none This is a list of events associated with medicine in the 2000s. 2000 BCG disease outbreak in Finland in the 2000s Walkerton E. coli outbreak October 09: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2000/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US 2001 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak September 07: The Lindbergh operation is performed, the first successful remote surgery in history. October 08: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2001/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US 2002 2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002 Barrow-in-Furness legionellosis outbreak October 07: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2002/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US 2003 2003 Midwest mpox outbreak 2003 Chi-Chi's hepatitis A outbreak October 06: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2003/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US 2004 Global spread of H5N1 in 2004 October 04: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2004/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US 2005 Global spread of H5N1 in 2005 2005 South Wales E. coli O157 outbreak 2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore October 03: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US 2006 Global spread of H5N1 in 2006 2006 dengue outbreak in India 2006 dengue outbreak in Pakistan 2006 H5N1 outbreak in India 2006–2007 East Africa Rift Valley fever outbreak 2006 North American E. coli outbreak in spinach 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks South Korean humidifier disinfectant case October 02: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello for their discovery of "RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2006/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US 2007 Global spread of H5N1 in 2007 2007 Bernard Matthews H5N1 outbreak 2007 Iraq cholera outbreak 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak 2007 Yap Islands Zika virus outbreak October 08: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Mario R. Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2007/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US 2008 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak 2008–2009 Chile listeriosis outbreak 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak 2008 H5N1 outbreak in West Bengal October 06: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Harald zur Hausen "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" and to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2008/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US 2009 2009 swine flu pandemic 2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak 2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak 2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic October 05: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase".Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/press-release/ 2025-12-29 NobelPrize.org en-US See also 1990s in medicine 2010s in medicine Timeline of medicine and medical technology References Category: 2000s in medicine Category: 2000s in science Category:Medicine timelines