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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...
Dates:
Feb. 6, 1987
Kirschstein, Ruth, Nov. 21, 1986
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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Institution: NIH/NIGMS. Topics: Personal and educational background; difficulties of Jewish woman getting into medical school; experiences at Tulane; motivations and influences for becoming a pathologist; husband's entry into PHS as life-changing event, coming to NIH to do monkey brain pathology after Salk polio vaccine Cutter Incident, developing new polio vaccine testing standards; SV40, Bernice Eddy and Sarah Stewart; turn to viral oncology; moving between FDA and NIH and becoming an...
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Nov. 21, 1986
Laubach, Jerry, Feb. 6, 1987
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Institution: Pfizer. Topics: biotechnology/bioengineering; fermentation; discovery of non-steroid anti-inflammatories; research approaches to invention; changing incentives for healthcare delivery and impact on new drug research; industry consolidation
Dates:
Feb. 6, 1987
Lovostatin lunch [lunchtime conversation with several unidentified Merck staff], Feb. 6, 1987
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Institution: Merck. Topics: Mevastatin/ML-236B; Sankyo Co.; Merck's unique dog model; fermentation techniques; discovering Lovastatin; Compactin problem disputes at Sankyo, FDA approval
Dates:
Feb. 6, 1987
Luciano, Robert, Feb. 27, 1987
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Institution: CEO of Schering-Plough. Topics: Biogen/DNAX acquisitions and workforce integration; interferon development and production; patent agreement with Roche; importance of investment in research; pressure on research divisions; leadership style
Dates:
Feb. 27, 1987
Ortho Pharmaceuticals lab tour, Jan. 8, 1987
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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Topic: Shorter led on guided tour of labs used to manufacture monoclonal antibodies, thymopoietin, and OKT3; descriptions of equipment, processes, chemistry
Dates:
Jan. 8, 1987
Paul, William, Dec. 4, 1986
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Institution: NIH/NIAID. Topics: Educational background; coming to NIH from NYU in 1968 with Benacerraff; how immunology is taught; influence of NYU programs and people associated with its importance: McCarty, McCloud, Thomas, Stetson, Green; Benacerraff's lab coming to NIH; Michael Heidelberger; importance of music and NYU lunches for collaboration; importance of professional meetings, events from 1960s and 1970s Cold Spring Harbor and International Congress of Immunology meetings, Niels...
Dates:
Dec. 4, 1986
Rabson, Alan, Dec. 5, 1986
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
Institution: NIH/NCI. Topics: Personal background; wanting to be a scientist; joining PHS/going to medical school during Korean War,always wanting to join NIH and finally got a position at NCI in 1955; diagnostic pathology resident at Clinical Center and viral cancer/tumor pathology research; working with Sara Stewart and polyoma virus, SV40; general status of viral theories of carcinogenesis at NCI; importance of introducing the inbred mouse model; Stewart and Ludwig Gross mouse leukemia...
Dates:
Dec. 5, 1986
Sabin, Albert, Dec. 15, 1986
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Institution: University of Cincinnati. Topics: How NIH became involved in polio research; 1950s Bureau of Biologics as controller of vaccine quality, Dyer wanting to keep polio research at National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; political influence of Basil O'Connor wanting to get Salk vaccine to the public as soon as possible, raised expectations led to cutting corners, insufficient experiment data; Eddy reported finding live virus in Cutter monkeys; Salk asking his vaccine to be...
Dates:
Dec. 15, 1986
Schlom, Jeffrey, Dec. 16, 1986
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
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Institution: NIH/NCI. Topics: Educational background in microbiology, immunology; recruited to NIH by John Maloney in 1973, cancer virus program; reverse transcriptase research; looking for viruses in human cancer; downfall of the virus cancer program; Bob Gallo; return to animal models; rise of monoclonal antibodies and hybridoma technology; Hilary Koprowski influence on his work; how his lab started using biopsied breast cancer tissue instead of cultured tissue as revolutionary;...
Dates:
Dec. 16, 1986