Oral Histories

The Oral histories are interviews of from people throughout NIH's History.  New Oral Histories are added on a regular basis.

Transcripts of interviews about AIDS research are located at AIDS and NIH.  Oral history transcripts of NIH researchers and scientists also can be found at the National Library of Medicine, the Science History InstituteHoward Hughes Medical Institute, and the IEEE History Center. For NHGRI's oral history collection featuring discussions with influential figures in the field of genomics and the history of the institute, click here.

To request a transcript of an interview not yet posted, please contact the History Office at 301-496-6610 or history@nih.gov.  The Office of History welcomes suggestions of additional sources of NIH oral histories not listed.  Please visit this site again, as this list will surely grow.


Jin Kinoshita
Interview date: May 31, 2005 (NEI)

Makio Murayama
Interview date: November 15, 2001