Anna Wessels Williams: female pioneer of vaccine innovation https://www.mpg.de/20064597/anna-wessels-williams
Mercedes Gomez de Agüero, junior research group leader at the University of Würzburg (Max Planck Research Group), about the pioneering immunologist, bacteriologist and public health advocate Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954), whose work was crucial in developing an effective treatment for diphtheria and who developed a rapid diagnostic test for rabies.
In one hand, she redefined the contribution of skin and intestinal immune sentinels