Michael Kinch

Director, Centers for Research Innovation in Biotechnology & Drug Discovery

Director at the Centers for Research Innovation in Biotechnology & Drug Discovery and the Associate Vice Chancellor at Washington University in St Louis. He is the author of “Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity”

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In 1796, British doctor Edward Jenner became famous for being the first doctor to use a form of bovine disease called cowpox to inoculate or against smallpox.

How did ancient cultures make sense of plagues and pandemics?

In 1796, British doctor Edward Jenner became famous for being the first doctor to use a form of bovine disease called cowpox to inoculate or against smallpox.

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