Add to ORKGLilly's experience in growing tissue cultures had positioned the company to prepare for mass production. An entire building was dedicated to the effort. In three months, Lilly engineers and technicians remodeled the former blood plasma plant. The polio vaccine was pronounced successful in 1955, and Lilly was ready to go. Salk wrote to Lilly's president, "The activities and contributions of your staff are, to me, something beautiful to behold."Use of this image is restricted to projects related to Destination Indiana. IHS may not reproduce.Eli Lilly and Company - Polio Journe
Josiah K. Lilly joined the company at age 14, serving as the general errand boy. Smart and ambitious...
Upon his return to the north, Eli worked for a wholesaler and later became half owner of a drugstore...
Lilly worked on insulin production at its Indianapolis facilities. Demand exceeded the supply until ...
In 1950, Eli Lilly and Company had set up a tissue-culture laboratory and was in an ideal position t...
Lilly's biological science research group became involved in November 1953 after the National Founda...
While the fate of the new vaccine was being studied, the company had gambled millions of dollars by ...
In principle, production of polio vaccine was simple. In practice, the process was complicated. Tiss...
Cultures were passed through three successive filters and pooled in large refrigerated tanks until t...
Progress had been made in the early 1900s by researchers growing the polio virus in cell cultures. T...
During the 1940s, Lilly supplied more than 200 products to the U.S. government during World War II. ...
Fear of poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, has long haunted mankind. The disease is known to hav...
During the 1940s, Lilly supplied more than 200 products to the U.S. government during World War II. ...
Josiah's eldest son, Eli Lilly, Jr., had begun working in the plant when he was only 10 years old. I...
At this crucial point, Eli Lilly and Company stepped in. Dr. G.H.A. Clowes, research director for Li...
Erythromycin, introduced by Lilly in 1952, was one of the first macrolide antibiotics, and it provid...
Josiah K. Lilly joined the company at age 14, serving as the general errand boy. Smart and ambitious...
Upon his return to the north, Eli worked for a wholesaler and later became half owner of a drugstore...
Lilly worked on insulin production at its Indianapolis facilities. Demand exceeded the supply until ...
In 1950, Eli Lilly and Company had set up a tissue-culture laboratory and was in an ideal position t...
Lilly's biological science research group became involved in November 1953 after the National Founda...
While the fate of the new vaccine was being studied, the company had gambled millions of dollars by ...
In principle, production of polio vaccine was simple. In practice, the process was complicated. Tiss...
Cultures were passed through three successive filters and pooled in large refrigerated tanks until t...
Progress had been made in the early 1900s by researchers growing the polio virus in cell cultures. T...
During the 1940s, Lilly supplied more than 200 products to the U.S. government during World War II. ...
Fear of poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, has long haunted mankind. The disease is known to hav...
During the 1940s, Lilly supplied more than 200 products to the U.S. government during World War II. ...
Josiah's eldest son, Eli Lilly, Jr., had begun working in the plant when he was only 10 years old. I...
At this crucial point, Eli Lilly and Company stepped in. Dr. G.H.A. Clowes, research director for Li...
Erythromycin, introduced by Lilly in 1952, was one of the first macrolide antibiotics, and it provid...
Josiah K. Lilly joined the company at age 14, serving as the general errand boy. Smart and ambitious...
Upon his return to the north, Eli worked for a wholesaler and later became half owner of a drugstore...
Lilly worked on insulin production at its Indianapolis facilities. Demand exceeded the supply until ...