History in the NIH

Conference program (PDF – 300KB)

Date/Time: 6 June 2012 / 12:30 - 5:00 p.m. 
Venue: Wilson Hall, Building 1, National Institutes of Health

This Symposium is a ‘progress report’ by the four current fellows in the Office of History.  Their presentations explore biostatistics and biometry at the NIH, the problem of Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, Joseph Kinyoun (the founder of the forerunner of NIH/NIAID), and the origins of NIAAA and NIDA in the 1970s.