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Peter L. Salk

Physician, Medical Researcher

Dr. Peter L. Salk graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1965 and Alpha Omega Alpha from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1969. Following two years of house staff training in internal medicine at the University Hospitals of Cleveland, he worked in his father’s laboratory at the Salk Institute from 1972-1984 conducting research on immunotherapy of cancer, autoimmune disease, and strategies for vaccine production. He worked again with his father from 1991-1995 on a project to develop an inactivated vaccine for HIV infection and subsequently worked on the introduction of AIDS treatment programs in Africa and Asia. He is currently President of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation, where he is devoting attention to the effort to complete the eradication of polio, to organizing and making available the extensive collections of his father’s papers and historical materials, to educating the public regarding his father’s life and work, and to extending and applying his father’s vision to help address humanity’s present challenges and opportunities.

Photo Courtesy of the March of Dimes

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