Our team
Alexander Flemming
Physician & Microbiologist
Alexander Flemming is credited with the discovery of penicillin in 1928. Penicillin led to the development of antibiotics, and is considered by many as one of the most important discoveries in modern medicine. In 1945, Flemming received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work.
Virginia Apgar
Surgeon Doctor
Virginia Apgar became the first female professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1949, but she is best know for inventing the Apgar score in 1952. The Apgar score – a method for quickly summarizing the health of newborns – is still used to this day.
Edward Jenner
Physician & Microbiologist
Jenner is best known for his work developing the smallpox vaccine, which was the world’s first vaccine. In 1979, the World Health Organization declared smallpox an eradicated disease. Vaccines help save millions of lives each year.