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Kirschstein, Ruth, Nov. 21, 1986

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12

Scope and Contents

Institution: NIH/NIGMS. Topics: Personal and educational background; difficulties of Jewish woman getting into medical school; experiences at Tulane; motivations and influences for becoming a pathologist; husband's entry into PHS as life-changing event, coming to NIH to do monkey brain pathology after Salk polio vaccine Cutter Incident, developing new polio vaccine testing standards; SV40, Bernice Eddy and Sarah Stewart; turn to viral oncology; moving... between FDA and NIH and becoming an administrator; the spirit of NIH; James Shannon and NIH growth; university/NIH researcher recruiting pipelines; personalities at start of NCI; overview of NIGMS programs, as only an extramural operation;

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Dates

  • Creation: Nov. 21, 1986

Scope and Contents

Institution: NIH/NIGMS. Topics: Personal and educational background; difficulties of Jewish woman getting into medical school; experiences at Tulane; motivations and influences for becoming a pathologist; husband's entry into PHS as life-changing event, coming to NIH to do monkey brain pathology after Salk polio vaccine Cutter Incident, developing new polio vaccine testing standards; SV40, Bernice Eddy and Sarah Stewart; turn to viral oncology; moving... between FDA and NIH and becoming an administrator; the spirit of NIH; James Shannon and NIH growth; university/NIH researcher recruiting pipelines; personalities at start of NCI; overview of NIGMS programs, as only an extramural operation;

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