Career
Moor-Jankowski eventually moved to the United States, where he worked mainly at a New York University primate lab. It was there that he used chimpanzees for medical research, including work on the discovery of the first Hepatitis B vaccine and the development of techniques to freeze blood for storage.
He was elected to the French Academy of Medicine in 1995, replacing Linus Pauling as the only American member.
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