Biographies always overlook people, especially the people who enable a subject’s life. “The help ... of people that medicine is tested on. Jonas Salk did incredible things for our world ...

By 1979, polio had been eradicated in the US. Jonas Salk is one of science’s folk heroes. The polio vaccine was actually his sophomore effort — he and Thomas Francis developed the first ...

Salk's former mentor Thomas Francis, Jr., directed the mass vaccination of schoolchildren. The success of the vaccination effort won Jonas Salk unsought fame. The March of Dimes, hoping to boost ...

This team won the 1954 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine. Now Salk could speed up his research. Using formaldehyde, he killed the polio virus but kept it intact enough to trigger the body's response.

AHEAD OF HIS TIME: Colleagues remember Jonas Salk for carrying the courage of his scientific convictions. Referring to Salk's work both with the polio vaccine and, in later years, with the AIDS ...

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk Institute) was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk ... devoted to the aging process, Alzheimer's Disease, Diabetes, Parkinson's Disease and numerous ...

which was opened in 1963 by famed scientist Jonas Salk. Hunter’s impact is felt across the United States and abroad in the form of his former students — or as he calls them, “scientific ...

Seventy-one years ago this month, Dr. Jonas Salk, a virologist at the University ... choosing to trust their own medical judgement over Dr. Salk’s, who has received dozens of awards and honors ...

In April of 1955, fearing the polio epidemic sweeping the US, Josephine Gottsdanker took her five-year-old daughter Anne to the pediatrician to receive Jonas Salk's new polio vaccine. Four days ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Residents in Mira Mesa are expressing their frustration over ongoing delays in the construction of a new park adjacent to Jonas Salk Elementary School. After hearing from ...