Laboratory of Pathology

Dr. Ruth Kirschstein and George Rusten worked in the Laboratory of Pathology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They were located in Building 29, Rooms 512 and 516. Previously, Dr. Kirschstein and Rusten had worked in the Laboratory of Viral Immunology on the second floor of Building 29.

Pathology became its own laboratory, elevated from a section within the Laboratory of Viral Immunology, around 1964. In 1965, Dr. Kirschstein became Chief of the Laboratory of Pathology.

After the administrative transfer of the DBS from the NIH to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1972, Pathology remained on the fifth floor of Building 29 until 1985, when it was no longer listed in the telephone directories as a division. Its functions were likely reassigned to another division or lab.