Excerpt from Review of Intramural Research 1965

Here is the fifth review of Intramural Research from the National Institutes of Health. As the title implies the volume summarizes work done by the scientists in our own laboratories and clinics and in the offices connected with these. It does not deal with the many extramural activities of the National Institutes of Health that support much of the biomedical research throughout the United States and some efforts in other nations.

This review covers the year July 1964 through June 1965. There was no volume for the period in January 1963 through June 1964 when we changed from a calendar year to the present fiscal year basis. The philosophy behind the review has not changed. The words are those of the scientists, who followed very general guidelines. The reports received only minimal editing. Thus, we have tried to present for the reader as direct a view as possible into the workings of our large, diverse and very active scientific community as it pursues the specific research goals given by Congress to the individual Institutes, which together comprise the principal research arm of the United States Public Health Service. The Institutes strive to extend fundamental knowledge about the health problems of man and thus to provide a base for the broader statutory concerns of the whole Public Health Service, namely, "the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man."

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