Hope E. Hopps

Education Hopps earned her undergraduate degree from University of Rhode Island and in 1950 her master's degree in microbiology from the University of Maryland. She discovered the ability of rickettsiae to produce interferon.

She later worked with Harry M. Meyer, Jr. and Paul D. Parkman on the Rubella vaccine although her role was not given full credit. She was included as a co-author on papers and jointly held a patent for the rubella blood test with Meyer and Parkman. Despite this she was called a "Girl Friday" and an NIH photograph described her as a "female technician". She was credited with the "first practical procedure for wide-scale evaluation of rubella immunity". She was active in the Tissue Culture Association (TCA), now known as the Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB), serving as president of the Washington, D.C. chapter from 1974 until 1975, national vice-president from 1978 until 1980, and was a member of its council and occasionally its executive board from 1974 until 1988.

In 2018 the NIH were amending their records of "female technician" in photographs to add her name.