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National Institutes of Health Historical Office and De Witt Stetten, Jr., Museum

of Medical Research

DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellowship in the History of Twentieth-Century

Biomedical Research and Technology Awarded

Dr. Marcia Meldrum, Lecturer in the Department of History at University of

California Los Angeles and Co-Director of the History of Pain Project at UCLA,

has been awarded the DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellowship in the History of

Twentieth-Century Biomedical Research and Technology for 1998-1999 at the

National Institutes of Health. The purpose of the fellowship is to encourage

historical research and writing about twentieth-century biomedical sciences and

technology by a postdoctoral student, at the beginning stages of his/her

professional career, with a year's research experience in residence at the

DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research offices on the NIH campus.

During her fellowship year, Dr. Meldrum will examine the history of intramural

pain research at the National Institutes of Health, centering on work conducted

in Dr. Ronald Dubner's laboratory at the National Institute of Dental Research

from 1965 to 1994 and in the Pain Clinic in the Clinical Research Center from

1983 to 1994. Her research is part of a long term study of the

reconceptualization of pain as a research problem in the late twentieth century

and the process by which laboratory research is translated into clinical pain

management. She will also research pain management in cancer, neurology, and

mental health.

John J. Pisano Travel Grants Awarded

Two John J. Pisano Travel Grants for historical research about the National

Institutes of Health Intramural Program have been awarded for 1998-1999. The

Travel Grants, instituted this year, honor the memory of Dr. John J. Pisano, a

National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute biochemist, and are funded by the Pisano

Fund of the Foundation for the Advancement of Education in the Sciences, Inc.

The recipients are Carla C. Keirns, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at the University of

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Stephen G. Pemberton, a Ph.D. candidate in the

history of medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Ms Keirns's research will focus on NIH contributions to the understanding of

asthma, including National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute work on pulmonary

and respiratory aspects, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

work on allergy, immunology, environmental, and climatological aspects, National

Institute of Mental Health research on psychological aspects, and National

Institute of Environmental Health Sciences work on environmental and

climatological aspects of asthma.

Mr. Pemberton's research on the history of hemophilia will focus on National

Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Clinical Center intramural studies of blood

transfusion safety, hepatitis transmission, and viral inactivation; NIH research

on thrombosis and hemostasis, NHLBI's historical commitment to sickle cell

anemia research; and recent NIH intramural work on hydroxyurea.

Fellowship in Bioethics for 1997-1998 DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Fellow

Dr. Mark Parascandola, the 1997-1998 DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellow, has

been awarded a two-year Fellowship in Bioethics at the Department of Clinical

Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. The

fellowship provides an opportunity to conduct original research in a clinical

setting with the guidance of the Department of Clinical Bioethics's senior

faculty. Dr. Parascandola's research will focus on patient autonomy and the

decision making process in situations where there is substantial uncertainty

about risk or prognosis.