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Lush, Dora Mary (1910 - 1943)
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Bacteriologist
Born: 31 July 1910  Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.  Died: 20 May 1943  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Dora Mary Lush was a bacteriological research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, where she worked closely with Macfarlane Burnet. After a period of time in England Lush returned to the Institute in 1942. On 27 April 1943, while working on a vaccine for scrub typhus, Lush accidentally pricked her finger while inoculating a mouse. She died of the disease three weeks later.
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1932Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1934Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1934 - 1939Bacteriological Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
1939 - 1942Researcher at the National Institute for Medical Research, London
1942 - 1943Bacteriological Research Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

 
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