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Isabel Merrick Morgan (also Morgan Mountain) (20 August 1911 – 18 August 1996) was an American virologist at Johns Hopkins University, who prepared an experimental vaccine that protected monkeys against polio in a research team with David Bodian and Howard A. Howe.
5 de mar. de 2024 · Isabel Morgan was a microbiologist who studied immunity to polio viruses and inoculated monkeys with an experimental vaccine in 1948. She contributed to the development of the polio vaccine introduced by Jonas Salk in 1953, but her achievements have been overshadowed by his fame.
Isabel Merrick Morgan, también Isabel Merrick Morgan Mountain, ( New Bedford (Massachusetts), 20 de agosto de 1911 – 18 de agosto de 1996) fue una viróloga y bacterióloga estadounidense de la Universidad Johns Hopkins que creó una vacuna experimental que protegía a los monos contra la poliomielitis que precedió el descubrimiento de la ...
12 de set. de 2019 · Isabel Morgan fue una investigadora que trabajó en la Universidad Johns Hopkins y que descubrió el modo de transmisión y los tipos de virus de la poliomielitis. Su vacuna experimental en monos fue clave para el desarrollo de la vacuna de Jonas Salk en 1955.
Dr. Isabel Morgan was a brilliant researcher who developed a killed-virus vaccine for polio in monkeys in 1949. She quit the field after five years and never tested her vaccine on humans, missing the chance to compete with Salk and Sabin.
Curator Katherine Ott shares how the history of medicine has obscured scientist Isabel Morgan’s essential work on the polio vaccine.
30 de jul. de 2022 · Published in. Rediscover STEAM. ·. 3 min read. ·. Jul 30, 2022. Image Credit: PBS. Isabel Morgan was born in 1911, in New Bedford, Massachusetts to two accomplished scientists (her father...
