"I couldn't possibly have become a member of this institute if I hadn't founded it myself," he said. Jonas Salk died of congestive heart failure in 1995.

But Jonas Salk ... like the March of Dimes. Salk was never in it for the money, and he never forgot where he came from. In 1963, he established the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in ...

This sentiment applies to an untold number of Americans but also to Dr. Jonas Salk, the virologist whose injectable polio vaccine Mr. Greene also mentions. I contracted polio in August 1955 after ...

At the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, we honor Jonas Salk’s legacy not just by remembering his past achievements but by continuing his mission. The work being done today at his namesake ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies ... all of us will miss his presence and his wisdom.” Cohn joined the institute in 1961 after a personal invitation from Jonas Salk to work there ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues ... president of the La Jolla-based Salk Institute for Biological Studies, which Salk founded ...

There is still no cure for the disease. But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it. This infectious viral disease attacks the nerve cells ...