Hope Hopps grew up in Rhode Island and attended the University of Rhode Island. She later received a master’s in microbiology from University of Maryland in 1950.
She worked as a bacteriologist at Garfield Memorial Hospital and then Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Hopps joined the NIH in 1956, first in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
She joined the NIH Division of Biologics Standards (DBS) in 1960 in the Laboratory of Viral Immunology. Hopps worked with Drs. Parkman and Meyer on the Rubella vaccine and the patented Rubella antibody test.
Hopps has authored or co-authored more than 89 articles, was awarded two patents (her second was for the BS-C-1 cell line that she developed) and was the national president of Graduate Women in Science.
She worked in Building 29A, second floor beginning in 1967 when it opened, but likely worked in Building 29, second floor with the Laboratory of Viral Immunology before that.
Hopps also became an administrator after the administrative transfer of biologics from the NIH to the FDA in 1972, first as the assistant to the Director of Biologics, then as acting Associate Director for Program Development & Operations, working in Building 29.
Sigma Delta Epsilon records, #3605. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library (need to confirm we can use this, it was in the NLM article on Hopps)
