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Isabel Merrick Morgan, auch Morgan Mountain, (* 20. August 1911 ; † 18. August 1996 ) war eine US-amerikanische Virologin an der Johns-Hopkins-Universität , die – in einer Forschungsgruppe mit David Bodian und Howard Howe – einen Versuchsimpfstoff entwickelte, der Affen gegen Kinderlähmung schützte.
Isabel Morgan was a microbiologist who studied immunity to polio viruses and inoculated monkeys with an experimental vaccine in 1948. She contributed to the development of the polio vaccine introduced by Jonas Salk in 1953, but her achievements have been overshadowed by his fame.
Isabel Merrick Morgan (also Morgan Mountain) (20 August 1911 – 18 August 1996) was an American virologist at Johns Hopkins University, who prepared an experimental vaccine that protected monkeys against polio in a research team with David Bodian and Howard A. Howe.
15. Juni 2021 · I first came across polio researcher Isabel Morgan in the late 1990s while writing the first edition of my book Experimenting with Humans and Animals. In it I noted that Morgan and Jonas Salk were the only individuals working on a killed-virus polio vaccine in the early 1950s, which wasn’t entirely true.
Dr. Isabel Morgan was a brilliant researcher who developed a killed-virus vaccine for polio in monkeys in 1949. She quit the field after five years and never tested her vaccine on humans, missing the chance to compete with Salk and Sabin.
The daughter of two accomplished biologists (her father won a Nobel Prize in 1933), Dr. Isabel Morgan was an early and important player in the race to find a polio vaccine. “Isabel Morgan is really one of the unsung heroes of the polio fight,” says author David Oshinsky. “She was a brilliant researcher.”
Curator Katherine Ott shares how the history of medicine has obscured scientist Isabel Morgan’s essential work on the polio vaccine.
