Philly.com News: Irving Millman, microbiologist

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Irving Millman, microbiologist Apr 26th 2012, 05:15 Irving Millman, 88, a microbiologist who helped develop the first hepatitis B vaccine while working at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, died of natural causes April 17 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington. He had lived in the nation’s capital for the last decade. In the 1960s, Dr. Millman collaborated with researcher Dr. Baruch Blumberg in the latter’s laboratory at the cancer center to create the vaccine, which is credited with saving millions of lives worldwide.

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