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Anne-Marie Staub (13 Nvember 1914 - 30 December 2012) was a French biochemist and immunologist. She is most known for her work in antihistamines, serology and immunology. More specifically she did important research on Salmonella and tyvelose.

Biography
Anne-Marie Staub was born on November 13th Pont-Audemer, France into a Pasteurian family: Pasteur was the witness to her grandfathers wedding, and her father André Stau was a researcher in the Pasteur Institute. As a child she would learn to read and write from her mother before obtaining her baccalaureate.

She earned her degrees in general mathematics, chemistry and general physics, physiology and biochemistry after receiving her baccalaureate in 1930. She later adds to her education by attending microbiology courses at the Institute Pasteur from 1935-1936, before joining the institute to work on her PhD thesis.

While conducting research in the Institut Pasteur in 1937, she worked for Daniel Bovet and her first published works led to the discovery of antisthamines. This discovery was the basis of the Nobel prize that would be awarded to her boss D. Bovet in 1957. While the molecules that she developed were still too toxic to be successfully used they are the basis for the research that followed.

In 1940 she started working on a vaccine for anthrax. From 1941-1946 she worked with the B. Anthracis antigens and successfully injected a sheep with a vaccine for the bacteria. During this time she also taught French, German and first aid to soldiers engaged in WWII.

Awards

 * 1969 Paul-Ehrlich-Darmstaedter prize


 * 1973 Knight of the Légion d'Honeur
 * 1993 Honorary member of the International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society