Irving Millman
Irving Millman (born May 23, 1923 in New York City , † April 17, 2012 in Washington, DC ) was an American virologist and immunologist . He developed with Nobel Laureate Baruch Samuel Blumberg a test and a vaccine against hepatitis B .
Millman's father was a Jewish immigrant from Russia. He studied after military service in World War II (in which he received the Bronze Star ) at City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in 1948, at the University of Kentucky and the Medical School of Northwestern University with degrees in virology and microbiology. He then worked at Armor and Company , the Public Health Department of New York, and Merck . From 1967 he was in the Blumberg laboratory at the Institute for Cancer Research (later Fox Chase Cancer Center ) inPhiladelphia . In 1969 they developed a vaccine based on parts of the virus's protein envelope, which, like the virus itself, occurs in the blood of chronically infected people and was isolated by Baruch and Millman. The vaccine was produced by Merck. Your hepatitis B test was widely introduced in blood banks in the early 1970s.
Millman was an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Medical School and Adjunct Professor at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. In 1993 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame .
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| SURNAME | Millman, Irving |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American virologist and immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 2012 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |