Packet 4: Bonus 9

The Biomedical Research Tower of a university in this city is named after the “father of transplantation,” Thomas Starzl, who developed the drug tacrolimus after moving to this city from Colorado. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city where Jonas Salk headed a virology lab that created the first polio vaccine. Medical student A. L. Wells helped treat Pinkerton agents wounded during a strike led by Hugh O’Donnell in a suburb of this city.
ANSWER: Pittsburgh [prompt on Homestead by asking “What larger city is that a suburb of?”]
[10e] R. K., a member of this Pittsburgh family, helped fund both Salk’s research and “urban renewal” projects that leveled much of the Hill District. A Pittsburgh university is named for this banking family and a steel magnate.
ANSWER: Mellon family [accept R. K. Mellon; accept Mellon Institute of Industrial Research; reject “Carnegie Mellon”]
[10h] Pitt doctor Peter Safar helped organize this pioneering, all-Black ambulance service based in the Hill District. This service set national EMS standards before Mayor Peter Flaherty absorbed it under pressure from police unions.
ANSWER: Freedom House Ambulance Service
<HA, American History> | NAFTA-Packet-4

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