Virus To Vaccine

                                    Polio: First Records Of Poliomyelitis Published In Sweden 

Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper proved that 

Poliomyelitis was caused by a Virus

Landsteiner and Popper inoculated Polio in Monkeys

Animal Inoculation To Tissue Culture

1936: Albert Sabin and Peter Olitsky 

First Culture Of Poliovirus in Embryonic Nervous Cells

1949: Enders, Weller and Robbins 

Virus grown in Muscle cells, human embryonic skin cells, connective tissues

Virus grown in Muscle cells, human embryonic skin cells, connective tissues

To

Human subjects successfully immunized with formalin inactivated Poliovirus

Polio Vaccine Milestone: 1949

Nobel Prize: Poliovirus grown In Vitro using Human Tissue Culture

Jonas Salk Developed The Polio Vaccine 

He was not the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Was awarded  a Humanist by the American Humanist Association

Snapshot

Medicine Gains On Virus 

Timeline Of Viral Diagonostics

Timeline Of Vaccine Development

Virus To Vaccines