Dr. Samuel L. Katz, a virologist who was part of the research team at Harvard Medical School that developed the measles vaccine, died Oct. 31 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From The New York Times.
Katz later enhanced the reputation of the pediatrics department at the Duke University School of Medicine as its chair.
“I was put to work with a visitor from Yugoslavia, Milan Milovanovic, who taught me a lot of practical, at-the-bench work,” Katz told Dartmouth Medicine, an alumni magazine, in 2009. “We worked together on adapting the virus to different cell systems and to eggs and eventually to chick embryo cells” — a process that led to the weakening of the virus so it could stimulate an immune response without causing serious side effects.
In the other role, at the request of a British pediatrician, David Morley, Katz brought a prototype vaccine to Nigeria in 1961 to immunize children who were highly susceptible to measles because their systems had been weakened by malaria, intestinal worms, vitamin A deficiency and protein depletion. He returned to Dartmouth after the war and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1948. He also took the pre-med courses required to enter Dartmouth’s medical school, a two-year school then. He graduated with a bachelor’s in medical science in 1950 and from Harvard Medical School in 1952.
“All the time we were working in the lab — with viruses, with cell cultures, with blood specimens, with potential vaccines,” Katz said on the podcast, Enders “would give these materials to anyone that visited the lab who was a legitimate investigator.”Katz left Harvard for the Duke University School of Medicine in 1968. As chair of its pediatrics department for 22 years, he helped raise its national standing.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.
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