Salk

American  

[sawk, sawlk] / sɔk, sɔlk /

noun

1. Jonas E(dward), 1914–95, U.S. bacteriologist: developed Salk vaccine.

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Salk British  

/ sɔːlk /

noun

1. Jonas Edward. 1914–95, US virologist: developed an injected vaccine against poliomyelitis (1954)

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Salk Scientific  

/ sôlk /

1. American microbiologist who in 1954 developed the first effective vaccine against polio, using an inactivated form of the virus. Salk's vaccine, which was administered by injection, was widely used until 1959 when Albert Sabin introduced an orally administered vaccine derived from a live form of the virus.

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"This study really takes a novel approach for cracking therapeutic resistance in pancreatic cancer," says study co-author Ronald Evans, PhD, professor and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at Salk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

In 1954 Life magazine described Salk as the man who had conquered polio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

When Salk scientists added methionine to the diets of infected mice, the animals followed a very different disease trajectory.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

It was intended for the greatest American artists, scientists, entertainers, writers, thinkers—Robert Frost, John Ford, Jonas Salk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

“Polio is a terrible disease! It left children crippled. Killed them. Salk and his group of scientists pioneered a vaccine to prevent it. He even tested it on himself.”

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

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