Stanley Plotkin, Pr, MD
Dr. Stanley A. Plotkin is Emeritus Professor of the University of Pennsylvania. For seven years he was Medical and Scientific Director of Sanofi Pasteur, Paris. He is now consultant to vaccine manufacturers and non-profit research organizations.
He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Medicine. His bibliography includes over 800 articles and he has edited several books including a textbook on vaccines. He developed the rubella vaccine now in standard use throughout the world, is codeveloper of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine, and has worked extensively on the development and application of other vaccines including anthrax, oral polio, rabies, varicella, and cytomegalovirus.