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Hilary Koprowski, M.D.
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President of the Biotechnology Foundation, Inc.
Dr. Hilary Koprowski is one of the most distinguished and respected
biomedical researchers in the world known for his achievements in
the development of the first oral polio vaccine (1950), development
of rabies vaccine used all over the world. Dr. Koprowski pioneered
the development of monoclonal antibodies for the detection and treatment
of cancer. Dr. Koprowski is the Director of the Biotechnology Foundation
Laboratories and the Center for Neurovirology at Thomas Jefferson University
and Professor Laureate at the Wistar Institute.
From 1957 to 1991, as Director, Dr. Koprowski led the Wistar Institute
to become one of the nation's leading biomedical research institutions
with a staff of more than 600 people.
Dr. Koprowski is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Academy of
Sciences and other twenty-eight learned institutions. He is a recipient
of more than eighteen awards, including the Order of the Lion, awarded
by the King of Belgium, French Legion of Honor and the Nicolaus Copernicus
Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1990 he received the most
prestigious honor of his home city, the Philadelphia Award. He is the
author and co-author of more than 850 scientific papers.
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