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How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth

  • Written by Fred D. Ledley, Director, Center for Integration of Science and Industry, Bentley University
How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growthNIH researchers conducted some of the earliest experiments for developing chemotherapy to treat cancer, circa 1950.National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to interview for a summer job.

It turned out to be the...

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