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Jonas Salk and the Invention of the Polio VaccineMain MenuJonas Salk and the Invention of the Polio VaccineA Brief History of VariolationA Brief History of VaccinationPolio TimelineAlvaro Quezada7828c851ddc470a00b45eb00bde06e8e2aefd52c
Dr. Jonas Salk
1media/Solkas.jpg2020-09-09T11:59:35-07:00Alvaro Quezada7828c851ddc470a00b45eb00bde06e8e2aefd52c378896plain2020-09-09T16:46:03-07:00Alvaro Quezada7828c851ddc470a00b45eb00bde06e8e2aefd52cDr. Jonas Salk is recruited by the University of Pittsburgh to develop a virus research program and receives grant to begin a polio typing project. He uses tissue culture method of growing the virus, developed in 1949 by John Enders, Frederick Robbins, and Thomas Weller at Harvard University.