Dr. Stanley Plotkin-GODFATHER OF VACCINES

Dr. Stanley Plotkin-GODFATHER OF VACCINES

Dr Stanley Plotkin (GODFATHER OF VACCINES) is an American physician, scientist, and scholar.  He graduated from New York University in 1952 and obtained a medical dgree at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He was a resident in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and at the Hospital for Sick Children in London.

He was born on 12 May 1932 in a Jewish family and raised in New York. In 1960 his career was started from the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, where he worked on several vaccines; chief among them are vaccines for rubella, rabies, rotavirus, and cytomegalovirus (CMV). His study on RA 27/3 strain of the virus helped him to develop vaccine for rubella in the year 1969. He worked with many other scientist like Tadeusz Wiktor and Hilary Koprowski to develop rabies vaccine during 1960 and 1970s. Vaccine like rotavirus was also developed by Dr Stanley Plotkin with association of H. Fred Clark and Paul Offit.

During his career from 1956, he was associated with many government and non-government organisation including research laboratories, hospitals, Educational institutes etc. Recently he was the Scientific advisor (and co-founder) of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).

He has been awarded by many organisations list has been shown below

1987: James D. Bruce Memorial Award, American College of Physicians

1993: Distinguished Physician Award, Pediatric Infectious Disease Society

1995: Ed Nowakowski Senior Memorial Clinical Virology Award, Pan American Society for Clinical Virology

1998: Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor Medal

2002: Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal

2005: Election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

2007: Distinguished Graduate Award, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

2009: Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement

2013: Caspar Wistar Medal of Achievement

2013-2014: Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence

2014: Dr. Charles Mérieux Award for Achievement in Vaccinology and Immunology

(PLEASE NOTE ABOVE LIST IS THE REFERENCE FROM WIKIPEDIA)

Recently in an interview he stated that while working on Oral Polio vaccine, he understood, how to neutralise a virus, the same strategy was applied while we were developing rubella vaccine. Today we have so many modern and conventional methods for the development of vaccine. In the similar fashion we will develop  an effective Corona vaccine in coming future. But people needs o understand that this vaccine will not develop in a night or two. This is a new area of research which will take some time. Till the time we have to go as per the FLATTENING OF CURVE, it means self-isolation and quarantine will help in breaking the chain of infection.