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The Wistar Institute is an independent, nonprofit research institution in biomedical science with special focuses in oncology, immunology, infectious disease, and vaccine research. Located on Spruce S
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Dr. Caspar Wistar
Gen. Isaac Jones Wistar, c.1898
Hilary Koprowski
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Hilary Koprowski was a Polish virologist and immunologist. He was the first scientist to produce attenuated poliovirus and to conduct large-scale clinical research studies of an oral polio vaccine. Hi
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…of inbreeding and sex determination. She was instrumental in creating and breeding the Wistar rat, the first standardized laboratory animal model. Hilary Koprowski, M.D.: a virologist, immunologist and inventor of the world's first effective live polio vaccine. He served as director of the institute from 1957 to…
Hilary Koprowski. Photograph. Wellcome V0027622
Koprowski in 2007