President Obama Visits Ebola Vaccine Lab as Women Make History
BY MICHELE LYONS
Thursday, March 19, 2015
The Ebola vaccine developed by Dr. Nancy Sullivan at the NIH Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is a Women’s History Month highlight: women developed the vaccine and coordinated and led the clinical trial, and a woman was the first volunteer to receive the vaccine. “That wasn’t planned, but it’s kind of remarkable,” said Sullivan. She explained her work to President Barack Obama in person. Read more about the visit external link).
As chief of the Biodefense Research Section in the NIAID Vaccine Research Center, Sullivan also studies vaccine-induced immune responses to Marburg and Lassa diseases. In addition to researching how vaccines confer immunity, her section hopes to gain a better understanding of how natural immunity works.
President Obama’s visit to Sullivan’s lab made the White House’s weekly highlight reel, West Wing Week. Watch “Multiparameter Flow Cytometer Show” below from 1:45 to 2:37.
Visiting Dr. Nancy Sullivan’s lab in the Vaccine Research Center, from left to right: NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, President Barack Obama, and Dr. Nancy Sullivan
THIS IS NOT WUHAN, that is not Melinda Gates. Here is the genesis of the photo:
President Obama Visits Ebola Vaccine Lab as Women Make History BY MICHELE LYONS
Thursday, March 19, 2015
The Ebola vaccine developed by Dr. Nancy Sullivan at the NIH Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is a Women’s History Month highlight: women developed the vaccine and coordinated and led the clinical trial, and a woman was the first volunteer to receive the vaccine. “That wasn’t planned, but it’s kind of remarkable,” said Sullivan. She explained her work to President Barack Obama in person. Read more about the visit external link).
As chief of the Biodefense Research Section in the NIAID Vaccine Research Center, Sullivan also studies vaccine-induced immune responses to Marburg and Lassa diseases. In addition to researching how vaccines confer immunity, her section hopes to gain a better understanding of how natural immunity works.
President Obama’s visit to Sullivan’s lab made the White House’s weekly highlight reel, West Wing Week. Watch “Multiparameter Flow Cytometer Show” below from 1:45 to 2:37.
Visiting Dr. Nancy Sullivan’s lab in the Vaccine Research Center, from left to right: NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, President Barack Obama, and Dr. Nancy Sullivan
Here is the location:
NIH Vaccine Research Center
40 Convent Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Pretty sure this photo was posted here a while ago and we confirmed it then too.