1983 HAUSEN, Harald zur (1936 – ); DÜRST, Matthias; GISSMANN, Lutz (1949 – ); IKENBERG, Hans (1954 – )

A papillomavirus DNA from a cervical carcinoma and its prevalence in cancer biopsy samples from different geographic regions,

Zur Hausen and colleageus identified HPV 16 DNA in cervical cancer tumors by Southern blot hybridization. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

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1984 HAUSEN, Harald zur (1936 – ); GISSMANN, Lutz (1949 – ); IKENBERG, Hans (1954 – ); BOSHART, M.; KLEINHEINZ, A.; SCHEURLEN, W.

A new type of papillomavirus DNA, its presence in genital cancer biopsies and in cell lines derived from cervical cancer.

Zur Hausen and colleagues discovered HPV18 as a cause of cervical cancer. With the discovery of HPV18, and HPV16, which zur Hausen and team discovered in 1983, zur Hausen discovered the viruses causing about 75% of hu…

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2009 FRAZER, Ian Hector (1953 – ); ZHOU, Jian (1957 – 1999)

Papillomavirus vaccines. US Patent US7476389B1.

Frazer and Zhou invented and patented the first Papillomavirus vaccine. In 2020 it was marketed as Gardasil and Cervarix. Developed beginning in 1991, about 20 years after Blumberg and Millman's vaccine against viral …

GMN 12665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14909