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When the newly-minted major returned to Children’s in 1946, he resumed clinical training. In 1949, Weller assisted Enders in the establishment of a new division on infectious diseases—Weller was appointed assistant director...
...year after graduating from Michigan, Weller left for Harvard Medical School—in part, because he felt as though “he knew Michigan,” Peter Weller said. There, Weller conducted research for the Department of Comparative Pathology and Tropical Medicine...
...greatest influence on Weller’s later work would be then-Medical School professor Enders, who accepted Weller as a tutorial student in 1939. Enders pushed Weller to apply tissue-culture techniques to studying causes of infectious diseases...
...Weller received his M.D. from Harvard and began clinical training at the Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston. But his work was interrupted two years later by World War II, when Weller shipped off to a research post in Puerto Rico that was responsible for malaria control of Caribbean bases. During his 32 months there, he headed the bacteriology, virology, and parasitology department...
Beginning as a teaching fellow, Weller eventually became an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Pathology and Tropical Medicine at the Medical School (the department was later renamed and transferred to the School of Public Health). In July 1954, Weller was appointed professor of tropical public health and head of the department at the school. He retired in 1980, and took emeritus status...