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Join us for the inaugural Victoria A. Harden Lecture in NIH History, on Thursday, May 4, 2023, given by Victoria Harden, PhD , the founding director of the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum (ONHM). Dr. Harden’s lecture is entitled, “Telling NIH History, Story by Story."

Before assisting Dr. Dewitt Stetten, Jr. in 1986 to establish ONHM, Harden was on the staff of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). As NIH Historian, she helped forge the historical record of early HIV/AIDS research with a series of national conferences, oral history interviews, a website, and numerous publications. Her book AIDS at 30: A History provides an essential overview of the epidemic that emphasizes the response of the medical community—physicians and nurses, public health officials, and biomedical researchers—to AIDS. Other important publications include Inventing the NIH and the Henry A. Adams Prize-winning Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease. After retiring in 2006, Dr. Harden has continued to serve the office as a Special Volunteer. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine in 2007.

Send requests for reasonable accommodations to Susan Giuliani at least one week prior to the event to allow time for coordination.

On February 13, 2023, join Dr. Erling Norrby for a biomedical history lecture “The Nobel Prizes and the Concept of the Gene”, moderated by Dr. Steve Chanock, Director, NCI, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics and hosted by the NIH Office of History and Stetten Museum (ONHM). Dr Norrby has published the definitive histories of many of the biomedical Nobel Prizes and he will use his analyses of these prizes and their backgrounds to trace the evolution of our scientific understanding of the fundamental processes underlying life on earth and its interactions. A global leader on immunology and vaccines, Dr. Norrby is the former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. There, Norrby was instrumental in the selection process for Nobel Prize recipients in Physiology or Medicine, and later served as permanent secretary of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a board member of the Nobel Foundation. At present, Dr. Norrby is with the Center for History of Science at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, California.

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