Awards and Achievements

            Jonas Salk has received several honors, awards, and recognitions during his life. “Salk received many honors, including honorary degrees from American and foreign Universities, The Lasker Award, A Congressional Medal for distinguished Civilian Service, and membership in the French Legion of Honor.” Jonas Salk received several awards that included the Presidential Medal of Freedom and also the Nehru Award for Internship Understanding. In 1977 Jonas Salk was awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “In 1947 Salk became associate professor of bacteriology and head of the Virus Research Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he began research on Polio.” “Both in the United States and around the world it showed how scientific solutions developed in basic research laboratories could lead to practical applications for complex problems at the core of human health.” “Shortly after the medical community railed around Sabin and his oral Polio Vaccine in 1962 Salk left Pittsburgh and founded the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California using the monies from the March of Dimes Foundation. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies was opened in 1963. In 1963 at the Institute for Biological Studies which later became known as the Salk Institute, Jonas Salk became fellow and director.
 
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