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United Kingdom. Coordinates. 51°45′07″N 1°12′59″W / 51.7519293°N 1.2163045°W / 51.7519293; -1.2163045. Website. www.jenner.ac.uk. The Jenner Institute is a research institute on the Old Road Campus in Headington, east Oxford, England. It was formed in November 2005 through a partnership between the University of Oxford ...
The Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research is an infectious disease vaccine research centre, also the Jenner Institute part of the University of Oxford. A section at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital is known as the Edward Jenner Unit; it is where blood is drawn. [66] A ward at Northwick Park Hospital is called Jenner Ward. [67]
The Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research ( EJIVR) [2] was an independent research institute named after Edward Jenner, the inventor of vaccination. It was co-located with the Compton Laboratory of the Institute for Animal Health on a campus in the village of Compton in Berkshire, England. [3] After occupying temporary laboratory space ...
Donald Ainslie Henderson (September 7, 1928 – August 19, 2016) was an American physician, educator, and epidemiologist who directed a 10-year international effort (1967–1977) that eradicated smallpox throughout the world and launched international childhood vaccination programs. [1] From 1977 to 1990, he was Dean of the Johns Hopkins School ...
In 1721, Boston experienced its worst outbreak of smallpox (also known as variola). 5,759 people out of around 10,600 [5] in Boston were infected and 844 were recorded to have died between April 1721 and February 1722. [4][3] The outbreak motivated Puritan minister Cotton Mather and physician Zabdiel Boylston to variolate hundreds of Bostonians ...
Dr. Jenner's House. Dr. Jenner's House, formerly known as the Edward Jenner Museum, in Berkeley, England, is housed in a grade II* listed early 18th century building called the Chantry, famous as the home of Edward Jenner FRS, [1][2] physician, surgeon and pioneer of smallpox vaccination, and now used as a museum.
Charles Friedel [ 3 ] Signature. Louis Pasteur ForMemRS (/ ˈluːipæˈstɜːr /, French: [lwi pastœʁ] ⓘ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.
[12] [13] Although at least six people had used the same principles years earlier, the smallpox vaccine was invented in 1796 by English physician Edward Jenner. He was the first to publish evidence that it was effective and to provide advice on its production. [14] Louis Pasteur furthered the concept through his work in microbiology.