Elizabeth R. Griffin (IMAGE)

Georgetown University Medical Center

Elizabeth R. Griffin

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Elizabeth R. Griffin was a young researcher who died in 1997 of a laboratory-acquired infection following ocular exposure to a macaque virus while working at a Georgia primate research facility. The new GUMC research and education program is named in her memory.

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Georgetown University Medical Center

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