Notable FigureFemale
Rachel Schneerson
born 1932
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryRachel 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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