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Jan 25, 1999 · The Haffkine Institute. The Plague Research Institute was opened on August 10, 1899 by the then Governor of Bombay, Lord Sandhurst, with Dr. W. M. Haffkine as its first Direction in Chief. Its primary job was to produce the plague vaccine for use all over India, a role which it fulfilled quite satisfactorily. Housed from the beginning in the ...
Milestone. 1899. Plague research laboratory set up under Dr. W M Haffkine. 1905. Department of Clinical Pathology added. Laboratory’s services expanded and renamed “Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory”. 1914–19. During World War I, the laboratory served as an enteric depot and housed cases of enteric fever and trained medical personnel. 1922.
The Institute is governed by a governing council and guided by a Research Advisory Council and an Academic Advisory Council. During 1975, Haffkine Institute assumed the nature of a Public Trust. The objectives of Haffkine Institute have been decided in the Memorandum of Association of the Institute with special focus on the following three broad areas:
Dec 11, 2020 · The Pasteur Institute, Paris, where Haffkine developed his cholera vaccine in 1892 A week after his success with guinea pigs in Paris, Haffkine replicated the results with rabbits and then pigeons ...
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Department of Bacteriology is the oldest department of the Haffkine Institute. In 1896, plague broke out in Bombay in an epidemic form. Dr. Haffkine was invited by the Government to investigate the causes of the plague epidemic and to develop a prophylactic. He started his work in one of the rooms of the Petit Laboratory of Grant Medical ...
Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine CIE, born Vladimir Aronovich (Markus-Volf) Khavkin ( Russian: Владимир Аронович (Маркус-Вольф) Хавкин; 15 March 1860 – 26 October 1930) was a Russian-French bacteriologist known for his pioneering work in vaccines . Haffkine was educated at the Imperial Novorossiya University ...
