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Rachel Schneerson

born 1932

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Wikipedia Summary

Rachel Schneerson is a former senior investigator in the Laboratory in Developmental and Molecular Immunity and head of the Section on Bacterial Disease Pathogens and Immunity within the Laboratory at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development within the National Institutes of Health. She is best known for her development of the vaccine against bacterial meningitis with her colleague John B. Robbins.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
April 25, 1932
Warsaw
Citizenship

Israel

Occupations & fields
immunologist
Awards & honours
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research AwardPrince Mahidol AwardNICHD Hall of Honor
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