Jonas Salk laboratory. He later joined the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis's polio project established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Extensive publicity and fear of polio led to much increased funding, $67 million by 1955, but research continued on dangerous live vaccines. Salk decided to use the safer 'killed' virus, instead of weakened forms of strains of polio viruses like the ones used contemporarily by Albert Sabin, who was developing an oral vaccine. After successful tests on laboratory animals, on July 2, 1952, assisted by the staff at the D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children, Salk injected 43 children with his killed-virus
Salk School of Science in the center. Students will normally exit through the right hand exit. There is school bus service which will bring students to and from school. NYCDOE Notably, the school has established relationships with many neighborhood businesses. If a student experiences trouble outside the school, the student can find refuge in almost any business nearby, and the proprietor will call both the school and 911. This has served as a model for many NYC schools. Salk School of Science The Salk School of Science is a junior high school, located in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1995