User:Jstil0006/Gladys Lounsbury Hobby

In 1959, Hobby left Pfizer to specialize in chronic infectious diseases as chief of research at the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, New Jersey. There she also worked on topics including bacteriophages, bacterial variation and enzymes, streptococci, chemotherapy of infectious diseases, immunizing agents, and germ-free life. She also served as an assistant clinical research professor in public health at Cornell University Medical College.[1] In 1972 she founded the monthly publication, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, and continued to edit it for eight years. She retired from her main career in 1977. In retirement Hobby wrote over 200 articles, working as a consultant and freelance science writer. She also published a book, Penicillin: Meeting the Challenge,[7] in 1985, in which she chronicled penicillin's journey and compared it to the Manhattan project in its importance to the war effort.[1]

Hobby died of a heart attack in 1993 at her home in a Pennsylvania retirement community.[1].