Biomedical research and national policy.

Federal policy for biomedical and behavioral research.

Leveraging the national cyberinfrastructure for biomedical research

In the USA, the national cyberinfrastructure refers to a system of research supercomputer and other IT facilities and the high speed networks that connect them. These resources have been heavily leveraged by scientists in disciplines such as high energy physics, astronomy, and climatology, but until recently they have been little used by biomedical researchers. We suggest that many of the 'Big ...

The Public Stake in Biomedical Research: A Policy Perspective

Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937

This is a relatively brief yet comprehensive account of the origins and early development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The volume is unmistakably the result of extensive research conducted over a number of years, as evidenced by its great detail, painstaking referencing, and historical accuaracy. Its historical and scientific value is complemented by its being absorbing and enjoy...

Inventing the NIH: federal biomedical research policy, 1887–1937

VICTORIA A. HARDEN, Inventing the NIH: federal biomedical research policy, 1887-1937, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xiii, 274, £25.55. Biomedical research in the United States unmistakably is dominated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the federal government's chief medical research agency. Yet even though this institution looms so large in the c...