Joseph Edward Smadel

Joseph Edwin Smadel ( born January 10, 1907 in Vincennes, Indiana, † July 21, 1963 ) was an American physician and virologist.

Smadel was the son of a doctor who studied at the University of Pennsylvania and received his MD degree in Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in 1931. He turned been to St. Louis virology and sat in the New York at the Rockefeller Institute continued in Homer Swift and Thomas M. Rivers and worked especially with Rivers. During World War II, he served as chief virologist of the First Medical General Laboratory of the U.S. Army in Europe. Discussions focused, inter alia, a typhus epidemic in the Mediterranean region in May 1943 and took 1948 ( as head of the Department of Virology and rickettsiae of the precursor of the later Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, WRAIR ) field studies in Kuala Lumpur, the effectiveness of the proved by chloramphenicol against typhoid and typhus - like illness. He remained until 1956 when WRAIR and was at this time in research programs against leptospirosis, plague, hemorrhagic fever, arbovirus diseases, cholera, rickettsial, typhoid and diarrheal diseases involved. In 1956 he became associate director of the National Institutes of Health. In 1963 he became head of the Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsia, which he remained until his death.

In 1962 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America ( IDSA ) named the Joseph E. Lectures Smadel after him.