She was the first woman to hold a full
professorship at Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine, the first woman elected to the
National Academy of Sciences, and the first
woman to head a department at the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
While at Hopkins, she proved that lymphatics
start as buds from the veins and go outward
Developed a system of dyeing
cells to help scientists distinguish
certain living cells from each other
Sabin and her co-workers described the
different lesions that tuberculosis causes,
and demonstrated that you could reproduce
the same lesions in animals using various
chemical components isolated from the
organisms
This furthered knowledge of how TB
interacts with elements of the immune
system and why the immune system is not
always able to beat it
Her campaigning helped pass bills—which
came to be called the “Sabin Health Laws”—
that included allowing counties to combine
forces to receive funds