abstract:Stanley Plotkin is an American physician who works as an adviser at pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur. In the 1960s, he played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia.
Albert Kapikian of the NIH, for example, identified arhesusstrainofvirus, and Fred ClarkandStanley Plotkin of Wistar identified anotherbovinestrain that mightreplicatemore vigorously.