microbiology

Remembrances: Alexis Shelokov (1919–2016)

By Michael Gottesman

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Alexis Shelokov, who studied the polio virus at the NIH in the 1950s and was a powerful scientific force in what would become the famed NIAID Laboratory of Infectious Diseases in Building 7, died on December 12, 2016, in Dallas, Texas. He had a prolific scientific career that took him around the world.