Excerpt from Review of Intramural Research 1962

The National Institutes of Health utilizes extramural and intramural programs in fulfilling its mission of conducting and supporting research, research training, and related activities in the biomedical sciences. The extramural activity, administered from Bethesda, affects most biomedical research institutions in the United States, and is now reaching into areas throughout the world. The intramural operation is carried out in the laboratories and clinics in Bethesda and seeks primarily new information in biology and medicine. This volume - which, it is believed, serves a number of scientific and institutional needs - summarizes the work done and knowledge gained in NIH's own laboratory and clinical facilities during calendar 1962. The reports are essentially in the form prepared by their originators, with only the most general guidelines, and without appreciable editorial modification. The reader may thus savor the diversity of outlook and attitude prevailing among NIH scientists, while noting that such diversity in no way inhibits pursuit of the common goal of understanding and mastering disease processes.

NIH's intramural programs embrace challenging scientific opportunities and major social responsibilities. During years of rapid growth and change in both substance and dimension of the health-related sciences, it is a matter of pride that NIH continues to meet these opportunities and responsibilities with undiminished standards of excellence.

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