Stanley Plotkin
 Stanley Plotkin    (researcher) | |
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| Born | 12 May 1932 |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | New York University, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Interests | • vaccine • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
the “Godfather of Vaccines” | |
Stanley Alan Plotkin' is an American physician who works as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers, such as Sanofi Pasteur, as well as biotechnology firms, non-profits and governments.
| Q: Have you ever used orphans to study experimental vaccines?
Dr. Plotkin: Yes. Q. Have you ever used the mentally handicapped to study experimental vaccines? Dr. Plotkin: (hesitant until his own writings were cited) Yes. Q: Have you experimented on the children of mothers in prison or jail? Dr. Plotkin: Yes. Q. Did you do so in the Belgian Congo? Dr. Plotkin: Yes. Q. Did that experiment involve almost a million people? Dr. Plotkin: Yes. |
Early life and education
Plotkin was born and raised in New York City, the son of Jewish parents, Lee and Joseph Plotkin, who emigrated from England. He attended The Bronx High School of Science in New York City graduating in 1948. He then earned his bachelor's degree from New York University in 1952 and went on to earn his MD at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1956.[1][2] Plotkin received his GME from the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in 1963.
Official narrative
His book, Vaccines,[3] is the standard reference on the subject.[4][1] He is an editor with Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, which is published by the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, D.C.
During his time at Wistar, Plotkin worked on several vaccines; chief among them are vaccines for rubella, rabies, rotavirus, and cytomegalovirus (CMV). He developed a vaccine for rubella, based upon the RA 27/3 strain of the virus (also developed by Plotkin using WI-38, a fetal-derived human cell line), which was released to the public in 1969.[5] This vaccine led to the eradication of the disease in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2005.[6] Plotkin, working with Tadeusz Wiktor and Hilary Koprowski, produced a human vaccine for rabies during the 1960s and 1970s. This vaccine can be used as a preventive measure for people who have an increased risk of contracting rabies, as well as a treatment for those who have been exposed recently to the disease, preventing infection in nearly 100 percent of cases.[6] Another vaccine that Plotkin co-developed, working with H. Fred Clark and Paul Offit, is for rotavirus. In 2006, the team's vaccine became part of the U.S. recommended vaccine schedule for babies.[6] In the 1970s, Plotkin led the development of an experimental vaccine against CMV. This vaccine, developed using attenuated CMV, has yet to make it into commercial production.[6]
Other positions held
- 1956: Internship, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital[2][1]
- 1957: Officer, Epidemic Intelligence Service, United States Public Health Service[1]
- 1959–1973: Instructor, then Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- 1961: Resident, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia[4][1]
- 1962–1963: Resident, Hospital for Sick Children London[4][1]
- 1964: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation scholar
- 1965–1972: Associate physician, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 1972–1990: Director of Infectious Diseases and Senior Physician, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia[2][7]
- 1974–1991: Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania[7]
- 1974–1991: Professor of Virology, Wistar Institute[7]
- 1984–1986: President, Medical Staff, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 1991–1998: Medical and Scientific Director Pasteur Merieux Connaught, Marnes-la-Coquette[7]
- 2003: Professor Emeritus, Wistar Institute
- 2006: Professor Emeritus of Virology, University of Pennsylvania
- 2006: Executive Advisor, Sanofi Pasteur
- 2014: Senior Advisor, Global Virus Network[8]
- Associate Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
- Member, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology[9]
- Adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health[10]
- Scientific advisor, Mymetics[11]
- 2017 Scientific advisor (and co-founder) of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)[12][13]
References
- ↑ a b c d e f https://web.archive.org/web/20170814200114/https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/stanley-alan-plotkin-1932
- ↑ a b c http://www.nfid.org/awards/plotkin.pdf
- ↑ Plotkin, Stanley A; Orenstein, Walter A (2004). Vaccines. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders.
- ↑ a b c https://www.nationalcmv.org/resources/blog/july-2016/dr-stanley-plotkin-talks-cmv-vaccine-research.aspx
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/vaccinatedoneman00offi/page/78
- ↑ a b c d https://www.wistar.org/our-science/wistar-centers/vaccine-center/history
- ↑ a b c d https://web.archive.org/web/20170814211430/http://amp-vaccinology.org/team/stanley-plotkin%7Carchive-date=14 August 2017
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170814213156/http://gvn.org/prominent-virologist-stanley-plotkin-joins-gvn-as-senior-advisor/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150803042846/http://chavi-id-duke.org/about-us/scientific-advisory-board
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170814192343/https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/1121/stanley-a-plotkin
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20161114163332/http://www.mymetics.com/about
- ↑ https://www.ft.com/content/5699ac84-dd87-11e6-86ac-f253db7791c6 quote=Billion-dollar programme aims to cut vaccine-development time from 12 years to one
- ↑ http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/new-vaccine-coalition-aims-ward-epidemics
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