Education
University of Cincinnati. University of Washington.
University of Cincinnati. University of Washington.
She performed groundbreaking research related to vaccines for polio. Hirose earned her master"s degree in pharmacology from the University of Washington in 1928. She then moved to the University of Cincinnati where she completed her doctorate in 1932.
She worked at the University of Cincinnati until being hired by the research division of the William South. Merrell Company where she researched serums and antitoxins.
In 1940, she was one of ten women recognized for her contributions by the American Chemical Society. During World World War II, her family was sent to internment camps, a fate she likely escaped because her work sent her to Ohio.
She died in Pennsylvania in 1960, and her surviving family buried her at the Auburn Pioneer Cemetery in Auburn, Washington.