[Dr. Ernest W. Goodpasture in His Lab]

Ernest Goodpasture studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University, earning his M.D. in 1912. He became interested in vaccines working at Chelsea Naval Hospital’s pathology lab during the 1918 influenza epidemic. In 1925, Dr. Goodpasture arrived at Vanderbilt as part of the move to modernize medical education in the South. He discovered how to culture vaccines in fertile hen’s eggs. This discovery made possible effective, cheap vaccines for influenza, small pox and other diseases.