{"id":156776,"date":"2023-02-01T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T23:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/dr-stanley-plotkin-md-the-godfather-of-vaccines-discussing-the-future-of-vaccinology"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T23:29:52","slug":"dr-stanley-plotkin-md-the-godfather-of-vaccines-discussing-the-future-of-vaccinology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/dr-stanley-plotkin-md-the-godfather-of-vaccines-discussing-the-future-of-vaccinology","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stanley Plotkin, MD \u2014 The Godfather Of Vaccines Discussing The Future Of Vaccinology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZPKBdRYEvH0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The godfather of vaccines discussing the future of vaccinology \u2014 dr. stanley plotkin, MD.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. Stanley Plotkin, MD (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Plotkin),\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Plotkin),<\/a> is an American physician, scientist, and scholar, who in the 1960s, while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus (which is now used worldwide as a key component of the MMR vaccine), and has worked extensively on the development and application of a wide range of other vaccines including those for polio, rabies, varicella, rotavirus and cytomegalovirus (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epiv.eu\/).\">https:\/\/www.epiv.eu\/).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Plotkin graduated from New York University in 1952 and obtained a medical degree at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He was a resident in pediatrics at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia and at the Hospital for Sick Children in London.<\/p>\n<p>In 1957, Dr. Plotkin served in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the U.S. Public Health Service for three years and then served as a member of Wistar\u2019s active research faculty from 1960 to 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in addition to his emeritus appointment at Wistar, Dr. Plotkin is emeritus professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/apps\/faculty\/index.php\/g275\/p1554),\">https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/apps\/faculty\/index.php\/g275\/p1554),<\/a> and works as a consultant advising vaccine manufacturers, biotechnology firms, non-profits and governments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/dr-stanley-plotkin-md-the-godfather-of-vaccines-discussing-the-future-of-vaccinology\">Continue reading \u201cDr. Stanley Plotkin, MD \u2014 The Godfather Of Vaccines Discussing The Future Of Vaccinology\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The godfather of vaccines discussing the future of vaccinology \u2014 dr. stanley plotkin, MD. Dr. Stanley Plotkin, MD (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Plotkin), is an American physician, scientist, and scholar, who in the 1960s, while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus (which is now used worldwide as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}