Richard M. Krause papers.

Collection

Identifier: HMD MS ACC 2015-048

Scope and content

Chron files, correspondence, travel files, reprints, lectures/speeches/presentations, editorial files, slides, digital media, photographs, limited personal/biographical material, framed diplomas/posters. Lots of loose documents and email printouts. Records from Krause's office at the time of his death. Primarily presentations/slides and reprints from throughout Krause's NIH and Rockefeller University tenures (not much from Emory?). Also records documenting Krause's tenure at the Fogarty International Center and his international work on streptococcal pharyngitis and rheumatic fever in schoolchildren in India. Some material while he was Dean of Medicine at Emory University. Little administrative material beyond reprints/articles/lectures from his AIDS work as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1975 to 1984. His documentary record is not complete--it's likely that much did not survive his many moves between NIH/PHS and Emory.

Dates

194u

Extent

57.5 Linear Feet (46 boxes + oversize)

Restrictions on Access

Unprocessed collection. Access is restricted. See Reference Librarian for information regarding access.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Biographical sketch

Richard M. Krause, a microbiologist and immunologist who steered the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases through the early, tumultuous years of the AIDS epidemic. He focused much of his scientific career on the genetic factors that affect the body's immune system. He rose to the rank of professor at Rockefeller University in New York, then served as NIAID director in Bethesda from 1975 to 1984, followed by five years as dean of the Emory University medical school in Atlanta. Krause presided over the institute at a time when AIDS, marginalized at first by many in the medical establishment as a "gay disease" began to emerge as a national epidemic. In 1989, he returned to National Institutes of Health to become a senior scientific advisor at the Fogarty International Center.