• 20th Century - Virology

    Nicole Grasset

    26/04/2024 - By 

    Nicole Grasset (18 April 1927 – 29 August 2009) was a Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist. Grasset was the senior smallpox advisor for the South-East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1971 through the end of the WHO smallpox eradication campaign.[1] Early life Grasset was…

  • 20th Century - Biology - Virology

    Sonja Buckley

    22/04/2024 - By 

    Sonja Buckley (June 13, 1918 – February 2, 2005[1]) was a Swiss-born virologist. She was the first person to culture Lassa virus, the causative agent of Lassa fever, a potentially deadly disease that originated in Africa.[2][3][4] Biography Sonja Grob was born in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1941, she married Dr. John…