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Hilleman, Maurice, Feb. 6, 1987

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11

Scope and Contents

Institution: Merck. Topics: Beginnings with Squibb; moving to Walter Reed with Joseph Smadel; desire to focus on vaccine research, not industry; discovering SV40 in Salk Polio vaccine at Merck; Bernice Eddy's work; discovery of adenovirus, developing a vaccine, and beneficial impact for the military; tumors as cancer causing agents; why he came to Merck, Vannevar Bush, solving 1957 Asian influenza pandemic, becoming "Mr. Vaccine"; contributions to... basic science at Merck, vaccine's he developed there, first purification of interferon through viral induction, abandoning interferon research, cancer immunology and etiology, relationship with NIH cancer programs; discovery of oncogenes as new era of modern science, molecular biology, genetics; pioneering polysaccharide vaccines;

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  • Creation: Feb. 6, 1987

Scope and Contents

Institution: Merck. Topics: Beginnings with Squibb; moving to Walter Reed with Joseph Smadel; desire to focus on vaccine research, not industry; discovering SV40 in Salk Polio vaccine at Merck; Bernice Eddy's work; discovery of adenovirus, developing a vaccine, and beneficial impact for the military; tumors as cancer causing agents; why he came to Merck, Vannevar Bush, solving 1957 Asian influenza pandemic, becoming "Mr. Vaccine"; contributions to... basic science at Merck, vaccine's he developed there, first purification of interferon through viral induction, abandoning interferon research, cancer immunology and etiology, relationship with NIH cancer programs; discovery of oncogenes as new era of modern science, molecular biology, genetics; pioneering polysaccharide vaccines;

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