Plotkin Stanley Alan

Corresponding members IV. Department of Medical Sciences
Plotkin Stanley Alan

Date of birth:

  • 1932

Place of birth:

  • New York

Emails:

Plotkin Stanley Alan

Corresponding members IV. Department of Medical Sciences

cademic titles:

  • professor emeritus

Membership in the Academy:

  • corresponding member – Department of Medical Sciences (5/17/1990 – …)

Curriculum Vitae

Stanley Alan Plotkin, born May 12, 1932, in New York, USA, is an American physician belonging to a small group of the most successful researchers of the vaccine against viral diseases. He graduated from medical school in 1956. He taught microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania and was head of the Division of Infection Control and the Department of Viral Laboratories at children’s hospital of Philadelphia until 1991. He performed the highest duties in the field of his interest in the United States. Among other things, he was chairman of the Committee for Research on Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, president of the Pan American Rapid Viral Diagnosis Group, president of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Pediatric Academy and a member of the National Advisory Committee on Vaccines in the United States.

Today, he is a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and an adviser to vaccine manufacturer companies, biotechnology companies and nonprofit scientific research organizations.

He was elected as a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1990.