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Harry M. Meyer, Jr., M.D.

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(1928-2001)

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Dr. Harry M. Meyer, Jr., was one of the inventors of the rubella vaccine.

Harry M. Meyer, Jr., grew up in Palestine, Texas, attended Hendrix College, and then the University of Arkansas School of Medicine.

He worked as a researcher in the Army Medical Corps at Walter Reed Army Hospital after graduation. Dr. Meyer was recruited to the NIH to be head of the Virus Research Section in the Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsiology in the Division of Biologics Standards (DBS) in 1959 and moved into Building 29, third floor, when it opened in 1960.

Dr. Meyer worked on the Measles vaccine with Dr. John Enders of Harvard where they conducted trials in West Africa from 1961 to 1964.

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He became Chief of the Laboratory of Viral Immunology in DBS in 1964.  Dr. Meyer moved to Building 29A after it opened in 1967, working on the second floor with the Laboratory of Viral Immunology.

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