Hope E. Hopps

Hope Elizabeth Hopps (June 15, 1926 – November 7, 1988) was an American microbiologist and immunologist who retired from the US Food and Drug Administration having served as assistant director of the Bureau of Biologics.

[2] Hopps developed a continuous grivet monkey kidney cell line to help create a live poliovirus vaccine.

She was included as a co-author on papers and jointly held a patent for the rubella blood test with Meyer and Parkman.

[2] She was active in the Tissue Culture Association (TCA), now known as the Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB), serving as president of the Washington, D.C. chapter from 1974 until 1975, national vice-president from 1978 until 1980, and was a member of its council and occasionally its executive board from 1974 until 1988.

[1] She chaired the publications committee and established a new name and format for the society's journal, In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology.

NIH photo labelled as "Drs. Harry M. Meyer, Jr. (light hair), Paul D. Parkman (dark hair), and a female lab technician (sic) of the Laboratory of Viral Immunology, Division of Biologics Standard [sic] working with rubella antigen in laboratory setting." [ 4 ]