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The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you donât find your choice, try searching for a key word in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name. Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867-1928), Danish bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner whose research into stomach cancer in rats helped propel the modern practice of creating cancer cells in the laboratory for study and experiment. It was for this work that Fibiger was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Born in Silkeborg, Fibiger studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen, earning his medical degree in 1890. His Ph.D. degree, also from the University of Copenhagen, was awarded in 1895, at which time he was a researcher at the city's Hospital for Infectious Disease. In 1897 Fibiger joined the staff of the University of Copenhagen's Institute of Pathological Anatomy, becoming its director in 1900. Fibiger's early research was on diphtheria, a bacterial disease that attacks the respiratory system. Several epidemics of the contagious disease had flared in Europe and the United States at the end of the 1800s, and many of its victims were children. Fibiger developed methods for growing the diphtheria-causing bacteria in the laboratory. He also produced a serum to protect against the disease. | |
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