Paul Giroud

Paul Giroud (6 June 1898 – 21 January 1989) was a French physician and biologist.

Dr Paul Giroud
Born(1898-06-06)6 June 1898
Moulins, France
Died21 January 1989(1989-01-21) (aged 90)
Paris, France
CitizenshipFrench
Alma mater
Known forDiscovery of vaccine against typhus and rickettsioses
AwardsMontyon Prize of the Academy of Sciences (1942)
Scientific career
FieldsBacteriology, immunology
Doctoral advisorAuguste Pettit, Charles Nicolle

Biography

Born in Munet (Moulins), Allier, France he studied and worked at the Institut Pasteur[1] in Paris.

Giroud was Head of Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris from 1930 to 1938. During these years he carried out several missions in Tunisia to research the source of typhus. Meanwhile he also travelled to the USSR, where he met Vladimir Barykin, who had developed a method of cultivating the agent of typhus for the preparation of a vaccine. In 1940 Giroud together with René Panthier developed a vaccine against typhus.[2] After this discovery Giroud studied the rickettsioses[3] in Congo, Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia. He also worked on a vaccine against Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

In 1956 he was elected member of the Académie de Médecine and in 1971 promoted to Commander of the Legion of Honour in the biological science section.

References
  1. "How A Jewish Doctor Duped the Nazis". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. Giroud P et Panthier R. Il est possible de cultiver et de conserver par passages sur poumon de lapin une souche de typhus épidémique européen. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1941, 213, 462-464.
  3. Durand P et Giroud P. Le lapin inoculé par voie respiratoire avec les rickettsies du typhus historique pouvoir antigène des suspensions. Ann. Inst. Pasteur 1941, 68, n°6, 425-437.
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