Stony Brook team aids effort to make polio vaccine
Photo credit: John Griffin/SBU Communications | Left to right: Jeronimo Cello, Eckard Wimmer, Dr. Benjamin Hsiao and Sean Boykevisch, Sr. Stony Brook University's team of researchers led by Wimmer and Cello executed a research and exclusive option license agreement for the development of a new inactivated polio virus vaccine based on the novel polio viral seed strains developed by the team.
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No disease in the first half of the 20th century struck fear the way polio did.
Highly contagious, paralytic, crippling and, in some instances, deadly, it was a seasonal menace that required a titanic scientific effort to identify the tiny virus and contain its spread through vaccines.
Eradicated since 1979 in the United States, the disease exists in only three countries -- Afghanistan,...
