Interferon Collection

  • Archives Committee of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokin Research
Date:
1955-2009
Reference:
GC/267
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Personal accounts, mainly written in the 1990s and early 2000s, and related materials, including photographs and slides, on the development of interferon and cytokine research

Publication/Creation

1955-2009

Physical description

5 boxes

Acquisition note

The first accession, no 734, was given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in October 1997. Additional accessions were received by the library at Wellcome Collection in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007, from Norman Finter, Jean Lindenmann and Robert M Friedman. Additional material was received from Norman Finter's solicitors following his death

Biographical note

This collection was put together by the Archives Committee of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokin Research under the chairmanship of Norman Finter, which solicited contributions from individuals who have played a role in interferon research. Besides personal testimonies, the individuals also submitted correspondence, photographs, slides, offprints and mss.

Related material

See sources leaflet 'Immunology and virology'

Terms of use

This collection has been partially catalogued and the catalogued part is available to library members. Some items have access restrictions which are explained in the item-level catalogue records. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case by case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.

Accruals note

The following is an interim description of material that has been acquired since this collection was catalogued. This description may change when cataloguing takes place in future:

17 digital audio files received November 2007 (acc. 1558), consisting of sound recordings of proceedings of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine research meeting, Oxford, 16-19 Sept 2007.

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Identifiers

Accession number

  • 734
  • 993
  • 1006
  • 1137
  • 1139
  • 1382
  • 1491
  • 1530
  • 1553
  • 1558
  • 1559
  • 1671
  • 2010