Details - Public Health Image Library(PHIL)

ID#:

21869

Caption:

This 1963 image, depicted the interior of what had been the Electrophoresis Laboratory, inside the United States Public Health Service (USPHS), Venereal Disease Experimental Laboratory (VDEL). The VDEL, and Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL), were part of the Venereal Disease Branch of the USPHS, and were located on the campus of the University of North Carolina (UNC), School of Public Health, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In this particular view, Donald L. Shanor, was in the process of conducting some laboratory experiments. The VDRL was later renamed, as the Treponemal Pathogenesis and Immunology Branch of the USPHS.