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This presentation
has surveyed the history of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the
challenges that biomedical research has faced in recent years and will
continue to face in the 21st century. For people who work at NIH,
the excitement and fascination of biomedicine can come to dominate one’s
thinking so that one’s world often comes to resemble this poster adapted
from Steinberg's famous cartoon about New York City’s view of the world.
Scientific research and its findings, however, require political decisions
to ensure continued funding and societal decisions on how the results of
research will be used. The responsibilities of scientists and nonscientists
alike as citizens will be critical to what is studied and how the knowledge
affects the lives of the world’s people.
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