Consultant
to World Health Organization
Born in Kaunas, Lithuania,
in 1920, Vytautas Pavilanis completed his medical degree at the University
of Kaunas, 1942, receiving Diplomas in Microbiology, 1947, and Serology
and Hematology, 1948, from the Pasteur Institute, Paris, before immigrating
to Canada the same year to pursue a teaching and medical research career
at the Institute Armand-Frappier in Montreal, Quebec. There he organized
and was in charge of the production of vaccines for polio, flu, measles.
A consultant to the World Health Organization, Dr. Pavilanis, now Professor
Emeritus at the Institute Armand-Frappier since retirement, 1984, is viewed
here, right, at the Pasteur Centenary with former Pasteur colleagues, Professor
E. Wollmann, centre, internationally respected bacteriologist and Deputy
Director of the Pasteur Institute, and, left, Professor D. Athanasiu, renowned
Romanian virologist. [Photos, courtesy Dr. Vytautas Pavilanis]