Smadel after exerting much pressure on Jonas Salk and Basil O'Connor was in early 1954 given the assignment of writing the production protocols for the Polio Vaccine. In 1956 Smadel left the institute to become the associate director of the National Institutes of Health. In 1963, he assumed a new position as chief, Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsiology, Division of Biologics Standards, National Institutes of Health, which he held until his death. Honors and accolades In 1962, Smadel was awarded the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award. References Biography on WRAIR Website 1907 births 1963 deaths American virologists United States Army Medical Corps officers Washington University School of Medicine alumni American medical researchers Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award Washington University in St. Louis alumni American public health doctors People from Vincennes, Indiana