INSTITUTE FOR TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH HISTORY
1933
1930s–1940s
1947
Dr. Tice at Cook County Hospital sends young physician DR. SOL ROY ROSENTHAL (1903–1995) to Institute Pasteur to work with new Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine.
Rosenthal conducts CLINICAL TRIALS on BCG on the south side of Chicago to prove safety; noted suppression of leukemia and soft tissue tumors.
U.S. surgeon general announces LONG TERM BCG STUDY in Rosenthal’s lab. Research foundation set up.
Institute Pasteur, Paris
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Thomas Parran, U.S. Surgeon General (1936–1948)
