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FDR buys a certificate enrolling him as "Founder No. 1" of the new National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
12020-10-27T11:20:39-07:00Holly Thompson371121db54ab210690ec037d01e9e87f68752e84378891FDR buys a certificate enrolling him as "Founder No. 1" of the new National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.plain2020-10-27T11:20:39-07:00Holly Thompson371121db54ab210690ec037d01e9e87f68752e84
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12020-10-27T10:28:46-07:00The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Founded4The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was founded to fund polio vaccine research.plain2020-10-27T11:23:07-07:001938In 1938, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was founded by Franklin Roosevelt and Basil O’Connor to raise funds to support the research facility at Warm Springs, Georgia, as well as to support research on the poliovirus and provide assistance to victims of the disease in their home communities. This foundation expanded its funding efforts to award grants to individual scientists and university research centers. Notably the foundation funded the work of Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk who separately pioneered successful polio vaccines.
This foundation was eventually renamed The March of Dimes and continues to fund research to improve the health of mothers and babies worldwide.
References: Wilson, D. J. (2009). Polio. ABC-CLIO.
