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Research--organization & administration

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Harold E. Varmus Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 598
Abstract Correspondence, speeches, administrative files, photographs, and audiovisual materials document the professional career of Harold Eliot Varmus, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for the discovery of the cellular origins of cancer, and who later served as Director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993-2000 and President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer from 2000-2010. The bulk of the collection consists of Varmus' speeches and professional activities at...
Dates: 1904-2010
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Joseph S. Murtaugh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 310
Abstract

Assistant executive director of the Public Health Service's Bureau of Medical Services, Murtaugh's files document meetings, research of public health issues, legislative activities, and program initiatives.

Dates: 1946-1970
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

National Cancer Institute oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH 182
Abstract

Transcripts from a series of oral histories conducted by History Associates of former NCI Directors, researchers, administrators and other non-NCI individuals, who also played a part in founding of the NCI.

Dates: 1996-1999
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of the Director. Congressional Inquiries Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 557
Abstract

Congressional correspondence regarding various aspects of NIH's research programs, appropriations and policy. Topics range from mundane constituent letters to top-level policy questions from Senate and House members.

Dates: 1949-1971
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

NIH Office of Alternative Medicine Archives

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 619
Abstract

The collection includes a wide range of internal and external correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, conference materials, strategic planning and policy-related items, OAM publications, informational and reference material related to the subjects of alternative medicine and biomedical research.

Dates: 1988-1999
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Robert Q. Marston Articles and Speeches

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 367
Abstract

Speeches and articles from his tenure as Director of the National Institutes of Health (1966-1973).

Dates: 1964-1973
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Robert S. Stone Articles and Speeches

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 366
Abstract

Twelve speeches and one article by Dr. Robert S. Stone, arranged chronologically and includes a content list. Stone was NIH Director from 1973-1975.

Dates: 1973-1975
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

"Study of the Sick" Conference : Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH 148
Abstract

Nineteen scientists, medical researchers, sociologists and historians were brought together to engage in a "long discussion" structured by clusters of questions formulated by the co-chairs. The agenda explored the post-war interconnections made between American and European clinical investigators, research teams, and institutions that came to represent these "golden years" of biomedical research.

Dates: May 20-22, 1991
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections