1990s in medicine

Listicle of events associated with medicine in the 90s This is a list of events associated with medicine in the 1990s. 1990 1990–1991 Philadelphia measles outbreak Kosovo student poisoning October 01: The Human Genome Project officially begins.Human Genome Project Timeline https://www.genome.gov/human-genome-project/timeline 2025-12-28 www.genome.gov en 08: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning “organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease”.Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1990/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US1990-10-09 2 American Transplant Pioneers Win Nobel Prize in Medicine (Published 1990) https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/09/science/2-american-transplant-pioneers-win-nobel-prize-in-medicine.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240709222132/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/09/science/2-american-transplant-pioneers-win-nobel-prize-in-medicine.html 2024-07-09 2025-12-28 en 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”.Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1991/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US 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”.Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1992/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US 1993 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak 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”.Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1993/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US 1994 1994 plague in India United Kingdom BSE outbreak October 10: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell for their discovery of “G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells”.Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1994/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US 1995 October 09: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus for their discoveries concerning “the genetic control of early embryonic development”.Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1995/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US 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"Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1996/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US 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”.Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1997/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US 1998 1998 Winter Olympics flu epidemic September 23: The first successful hand transplant is performed.Hand Transplant Declared Successful https://www.science.org/content/article/hand-transplant-declared-successful 2025-12-28 www.science.org en 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.Looi Lai-Meng Chua Kaw-Bing December 2007 Lessons from the Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19108397 The Malaysian Journal of Pathology 29 2 63–67 0126-8635 19108397 One million pigs were culled to stop the outbreak.Arif Mohamad Taha August 16, 1999 An Overview of the Nipah Virus Encephalitis Outbreak in Malaysia, September 1998 to May 1999 https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/IR/nistir6410.pdf APEC 17th ISTWG Special Seminar on Emerging Infections in Asia Pacific: Proceedings 3-5 October 12: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Robert F. Furchgott, Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad for their discoveries concerning “nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”.Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1998/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US 1999 1999 Bovenkarspel legionellosis outbreak 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”.Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1999/press-release/ 2025-12-28 NobelPrize.org en-US December 09: The hormone Ghrelin is discovered and named.Kojima Masayasu Hosoda Hiroshi Date Yukari Nakazato Masamitsu Matsuo Hisayuki Kangawa Kenji December 1999 Ghrelin is a growth-hormone-releasing acylated peptide from stomach https://www.nature.com/articles/45230 Nature en 402 6762 656–660 10.1038/45230 1476-4687 subscription See also 2000s in medicine Timeline of medicine and medical technology References Category: 1990s in medicine Category: 1990s in science Category: Medicine timelines