But Jonas Salk, a medical researcher and budding ... In 1963, he established the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA to provide a research space for scientists working toward ...

“He has stood with Salk through its entire history and 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 as ...

"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.

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 ...