This Virus Hunter Fought a Pandemic Using a Garage Full of Guinea Pigs

Image credit: Paula Mangin. Article by Erica Huang, Amy Scharf. Scientific American: The Lost Women of Science Initiative – October 19, 2023.

Harriet Jane Lawrence was one of the first female pathologists in the U.S. In the early 1900s she worked in Portland, Ore., where she hunted microbes and developed vaccines and serum therapies with the help of 200 guinea pigs that she kept in her garage. Her work on a vaccine during the 1918 influenza pandemic earned her presidential recognition and has had a lasting impact on medicine. […]

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