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Stetten, DeWitt, Dec. 6, 1986

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 23

Scope and Contents

Institution: NIH. Topics: Educational background; work at Columbia University, influence of German refugee biochemists and German research traditions, Hans Clarke; circle of New York institutions: Rockefeller, NYU, Cornell, Columbia; coming to NIDDK in 1959, research atmosphere of the time, how the labs operated; Arthur Kornberg, Leon Heppell, Bernard Horecker; Marshall Nirenberg and Severo Ochoa DNA race, energized entire campus, wasn't just Nirenberg's... lab doing all the work; his work at Columbia with radio-labeling protein, Schoenheimer and manic depression; labs at NIH doing the most important immunologic work: Gallo (interleukin 2, AIDS); Waldmann (anti-Tac); NIH's Nobel Prize history; Carleton Gajdusek's research; William Sebrell and Joseph Golderberger and origins of NIH; Salk polio vaccine and SV40 controversies, Bernice Eddy, Joseph Smadel, Ruth Kirschstein; influence of Mary Lasker, Alice Fordyce, Margaret Sanger; testifying before Congress; James Shannon's personality and political skills; opinion of the war on cancer, strategy of targeted research programs; impact of AIDS; family genealogy; current work starting the NIH museum and history office

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  • Creation: Dec. 6, 1986

Scope and Contents

Institution: NIH. Topics: Educational background; work at Columbia University, influence of German refugee biochemists and German research traditions, Hans Clarke; circle of New York institutions: Rockefeller, NYU, Cornell, Columbia; coming to NIDDK in 1959, research atmosphere of the time, how the labs operated; Arthur Kornberg, Leon Heppell, Bernard Horecker; Marshall Nirenberg and Severo Ochoa DNA race, energized entire campus, wasn't just Nirenberg's... lab doing all the work; his work at Columbia with radio-labeling protein, Schoenheimer and manic depression; labs at NIH doing the most important immunologic work: Gallo (interleukin 2, AIDS); Waldmann (anti-Tac); NIH's Nobel Prize history; Carleton Gajdusek's research; William Sebrell and Joseph Golderberger and origins of NIH; Salk polio vaccine and SV40 controversies, Bernice Eddy, Joseph Smadel, Ruth Kirschstein; influence of Mary Lasker, Alice Fordyce, Margaret Sanger; testifying before Congress; James Shannon's personality and political skills; opinion of the war on cancer, strategy of targeted research programs; impact of AIDS; family genealogy; current work starting the NIH museum and history office

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