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Rachel Schneerson
Born (1932-04-25) 25 April 1932 (age 92)
Alma mater
  • Haddasah Medical School
Known for
  • Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
Scientific career
Fields
  • Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine
Institutions
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Rachel Schneerson (born April 25, 1932) is a former senior investigator in the Laboratory in Developmental and Molecular Immunity and head of the Section on Bacterial Disease Pathogens and Immunity within the Laboratory at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development within the National Institutes of Health. She is best known for her development of the vaccine against bacterial meningitis (Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)) with her colleague John B. Robbins.

Schneerson received the 1996 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research[1][2] and the Pasteur Award from the World Health Organization Children's Vaccine Initiative,[3] both with her colleague Robbins. In 1998, she received a Citation Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.[4]

Schneerson retired from federal service in 2012.

  1. ^ Hofschneider, Mark. "L-Dopa for treating Parkinson's disease". Lasker Foundation.
  2. ^ Hilchey, Tim (26 September 1996). "6 Will Receive Awards for Outstanding Research". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "NICHD Researchers Honored by World Health Organization for Developing Vaccines Against Hemophilus Influenzae".
  4. ^ "Society Citation Award Winners: Past Winners".

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