Dr. Joseph Beard and his wife and research partner Dorothy develop a vaccine against equine encephalomyelitis, a disease that then struck down thousands of horses. This development was due in part to the funding of Lederle Laboratories, owned by William Brown Bell, a Duke Endowment Trustee and President of American Cyanamid Company. Bell's support allowed Duke scientists to progress rapidly in successfully developing the vaccine and subsequently becoming national leaders in vaccine and immunization.
