Stanley Plotkin

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Stanley Plotkin

Stanley Alan Plotkin (born March 12, 1932 in New York City ) is an American medical doctor ( pediatric ) and vaccine developer.

Plotkin graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in medicine in 1952 and received his MD (MD) from Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York in 1956. He then completed specialist training in paediatrics (internship 1956/57 at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, 1961 to 1963 residency at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia and 1962/63 Registrar at the Hospital of Sick Children in London) with a diploma from the American Board of Pediatrics 1965. He became an instructor in 1959 and a professor of paediatrics in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1959 and was also an associate physician and senior physician at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia from 1965 to 1973 (where he was head of the infectious diseases division and president from 1984 to 1986 of the medical staff) and 1960 to 1973 associate member of and from 1974 professor at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, where he researched until 1991.

In the 1960s he played an essential role in the development of a vaccine against rubella at the Wistar Institute, the rubella vaccine used today (2016) (virus strain RA 27/3, isolated from a fetus infected with rubella in 1965), also called Meruvax II . It is a live attenuated vaccine, licensed in 1979 (and from then on superseded three previously developed vaccines, including Meruvax), and contains no animal proteins. He also developed experimental vaccines against polio , cytomegalovirus and chickenpox , was involved in the development of a rabies vaccine (with Hilary Koprowski and Tadeusz Wiktor at Wistar) and against the rotavirus (with H. Fred Clark and Paul Offit ).

He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and, since 2005, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Plotkin is a Scientific Advisor to CureVac and was also a Senior Scientist at Sanofi Pasteur MSD and Senior Assistant Surgeon of the Epidemic Intelligence Service in the United States Public Health Service. He received the Bruce Medal from the American College of Physicians (1987), the Sabin Foundation Medal (2002), and the Distinguished Physician Award from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (1993). In 2009 he received the Maxwell Finland Award , in 2004 the Alexander Fleming Award .

He was the editor of the journal Clinical and Vaccine Immunology and a standard work on vaccines.

He has been married since 1979 and has two children.

Fonts

  • Editor with Walter A. Orenstein, Paul A. Offit: Vaccines, 7th edition, Elsevier Saunders 2017

Web links

Commons : Stanley Plotkin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Website on rubella at the CDC
  3. ↑ http://www.curevac.com/de/unternehmen/scientific-advisory-board/
personal data
SURNAME Plotkin, Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plotkin, Stanley Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City