...productivity of research conducted during the war. Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran and Holla E. Dyer, Director, NIII, impressed by the effectiveness of the wartime Office...their earlier reluctance for expansion of biomedical research and embraced the new categorical institutes added to the NIH family during the period 1948-50....

...technologies, diagnostic, preventive, and curative medicine, and specialized physician scientists. The wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development and its Committee on Medical Research funded and coordinated the development and production of penicillin in the United States, by connecting...