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Title(s): The federal government impact on biomedical research Author(s): Mider, G. Burroughs, 1907- National Medical Audiovisual Center. National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Colloquium on the Bicentennial of Medicine in the United States, 1976 Publication Date: 1976 Publication Information: [Bethesda, Md.] : U. S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine ; [Atlanta : for loan by The Center ; Washington : for sale by National Audiovisual Center], 1976 Language(s): English Format: Moving image; 022 min.; Sound; Color Rights: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. Identifier(s): See catalog record: 7602663A http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7602663A

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This session, part of the National Library of Medicine's 1976 Colloquium on the Bicentennial of Medicine, features Dr. G. Burroughs Mider, senior consultant to the National Library of Medicine, providing an historical overview of the impact of federal funding and leadership on biomedical research. Dr. Mider describes the impact of agricultural research on biomedicine, the founding of the Hygienic Laboratory in the 1880s and the Food and Drug Administration in 1906, and the influence of military medicine on the field. Following Dr. Mider's presentation, Dr. Ivan Bennett, provost of the Medical Center and dean of the School of Medicine at New York University, discusses Mider's talk and the future of biomedical research.

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