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…Columbia to do a postdoctoral fellowship with my colleague, Howard Shuman. We now live near each other and meet at the Jersey shore at least once a year to talk…
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Should viral vaccines be made for profit?
This past week the vaccine against influenza made world news when the British government suspendend the manufacturing license of a Liverpool factory that produces the vaccine. The factory is owned…
Poliovirus
…developed in the 1950s that can effectively prevent the disease – inactivated poliovaccine (IPV, developed by Jonas Salk) and live, oral poliovaccine (OPV, developed by Albert Sabin). In 1988 the…
Poliovirus is IRESistable
…recent paper we show that this is not the case. The other topic of our paper concerns the live poliovirus vaccine, also known as the Sabin vaccine or oral poliovirus…
Letters from Albert Sabin
The oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV), which has been used to eradicate poliomyelitis in much of the world, was developed by Dr. Albert Sabin during the 1940s and 1950s. This live…
Dreaming of inactivated poliovirus vaccine
The World Health Organization’s global polio eradication effort uses the live, attenuated poliovirus vaccines developed by Albert Sabin. When the eradication program was announced in 1988, the goal was to…