【who is he】
【who is he】 Regardless of his personal gains and losses, in order to eliminate polio in China, he firmly chose to develop an independent inactivated vaccine to protect Chinese children from polio
Faced with the unknown risks of the vaccine, he took the vaccine by himself, and kept his wife secret, and fed the vaccine that was still in the development stage to his son who had just reached the full moon
He is the "Sugar Pill Grandpa", a pioneer in the development and production of polio vaccines in China, a pioneer in scientific and technological research, and the winner of the national honorary title of "People's Scientist"-Gu Fangzhou
[His Merit]
[His Merit] In 1955, polio spread in Qingdao, Shanghai, Jining, Nanning and other places
This matter has always affected him
Gu Fangzhou determined that the only way to eradicate polio in China is to take the route of live vaccines
In this way, a live polio vaccine research collaboration group headed by Gu Fangzhou set up a vaccine laboratory in a cave in the outer suburbs of Kunming
When entering the first phase of the clinical trial, Gu Fangzhou and his colleagues did not hesitate to make their decision to try the vaccine first
But children are different from adults after all
At the end of 1960, the first batch of 5 million vaccines was promoted in 11 cities across the country
In order to solve the problem of vaccine storage, Gu Fangzhou made the vaccine into a "sugar pill" that children all like
[His famous quote]
[His famous quote] "I don't allow my children to drink, but let the children of the family drink.
"If I develop a vaccine earlier, more people will be cured, and there are still many children I haven't saved
"I have only done one thing in my life, which is to make a small candy pill
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