Former medical scientist and senior research fellow (b Welwyn Garden City 1921; q London 1947), died from multiple myeloma on 28 July 2004 in London.
Tom was employed by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control. On retirement he became senior visiting research fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute within Imperial College, London. In the early 1950s, the MRC appointed Tom to undertake a major study of the safety and efficacy of BCG vaccine. The MRC was able to show remarkably consistent protection against tuberculosis given by BCG vaccination of British schoolchildren. Tom became a world expert on BCG vaccine.
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