Vogt, Marguerite

Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1913, Vogt received her medical degree from the University of Berlin in 1936 and worked at a private brain research facility in Germany until 1950. She immigrated to the United States to work with Max Delbruck at the California Institute of Technology, then joined Renato Dulbecco, also at Cal Tech, to develop a method to culture the polio virus. In 1962, she and Dulbecco accepted positions at the newly formed Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. For the next thirty years, Vogt studied viruses, leukemia and the process of aging in cancer cells. She died in 2007.

From the description of Marguerite Vogt collection, 1925-2001. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 180703569

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