Word: virologist
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...Virologist Robert Davies Defries 56 University of Toronto, for leadership in preventive medicine-his laboratories brewed most of the virus used in the Salk 1954 polio vaccine, made the bulk of Canada's 1955 vaccine...
...Central Virus Laboratory, run by famed Virologist Joseph Smadel, is concerned with the multitude of diseases caused by the smallest of microbes, which can knock troops out in no time (best example: the 1918-19 influenza pandemic). The lab has the Government's only polio diagnostic center. Says Dr. Smadel: "Our work ranges all the way from the fundamental and theoretical to the most practical. We can both develop theories and apply them. Aside from the Rockefeller Foundation, nobody else does research of this scope...
...rash of polio cases following use of Cutter vaccine that had first halted the vaccination program. For weeks, experts have broadly suggested that some live virus must have slipped through the killing and testing process in the manufacture of the Cutter product. Last week, for the first time, a virologist flatly asserted that he had found live virus in Cutter specimens. He was Dr. Louis P. Gebhardt, professor of bacteriology and director of the polio research laboratory at the University of Utah. The chilling thought, of course, was that what happened to Cutter might have happened to other manufacturers. Said...
...lead toward development of a vaccine against measles was reported by famed Virologist John F. Enders (TIME, Nov. 1) of Boston's Children's Medical Center: he thinks he has trapped the elusive measles virus and got it growing in tissue-culture tubes. If this is confirmed, further steps would follow along the lines that led to the Salk polio vaccine...
...their discovery of the ability of the poliomyelitis virus to grow in cultures of different tissues, as the citation dryly put it, three U.S. scientists last week won the coveted 1954 Nobel Prize ($36,000) for medicine. They were Harvard's famed Virologist John Franklin Enders, 57 (no M.D. but a Ph.D. in bacteriology and immunology), and two who had worked with him on the project: Dr. Thomas H. Weller, 39, of the Harvard School of Public Health and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, 38, now of Cleveland's Western Reserve Medical School...