John D. Clemens
John D. Clemens (born May 12, 1949 in Chicago ) is an American physician and epidemiologist who specializes in infectious diseases in developing countries, including the development of vaccines.
Clemens studied at Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and medicine from Yale University with an MD degree in 1976. He was then in the Robert Woods Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University, from 1981 to 1985 as an associate professor.
Clemens was head of epidemiology at the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland from 1988 to 1990, head of epidemiology at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development from 1990 (and later head of the section on infectious diseases of children and vaccines) and he was director general of the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul . He was Professor of Epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Founding Director of the Center for Global Infectious Diseases and is Director of the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research (ICDDR, B) in Bangladesh , where he was from 1983 to 1988 was. He is also an adjunct professor at UCLA (Fielding School of Public Health).
Clemens and his team developed an inexpensive oral vaccination against cholera , which was used in Haiti , for example . For this he received the Sabin Gold Medal in 2010 and the Prinz Mahidol Prize in 2018 . Jan R. Holmgren had developed an oral vaccination against cholera in the 1980s, based on killed cholera bacteria, which, however, required intake with a buffer solution to protect against gastric acid, which in developing countries like Bangladesh proved to be impractical for children. In 1986 the Vietnamese scientist Dang Duc Trach found a method to avoid the buffer solution and in cooperation with Holmgren and Clemens (at that time at the ICDDR) a more practicable cholera vaccination for children in developing countries was developed.
Clemens is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and the Infectious Disease Society of America .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth dates American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ John D. Clemens, Skoll
- ↑ New York Times features work by Dr. John Clemens, FSPH professor and vaccine expert , UCLA News according to New York Times, February 6, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clemens, John D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clement, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |