Experience, Commitment and Skill

Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories operates under the direction of Hilary Koprowski, M.D., an internationally recognized research scientist who helped pioneer the oral polio and modern rabies vaccines. Its talented staff of two dozen includes scientists trained in molecular biology, immunology, virology, and plant pathology. Many are professors, instructors or post-doctoral candidates at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where the foundation's laboratories are located.

An important facet of Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories' research is its relationship with scientists in other parts of the country and around the world. Currently colleagues at two research institutes in Poland are collaborating to further Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories research programs.

Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories has five patents pending on different approaches to the production of plant vaccines and other biomedical materials in plants. The Laboratories mission is primarily to begin testing and mass production of plant vaccines and other therapeutics as soon as possible.