Biomedical Research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Five years ago while speaking at the Second Anglo-American Meeting on Tropical Medicine, Dr.Richard Krause,Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), emphasized the international character of biomedical research. His lecture was based on a quotation from Louis Pasteur, who in 1876 stated “Science knows no country because knowledge belongs no humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” ince that time Dr. Krause has consistently and forcefully supported the international scope of the work of NIAID and particularly that work relmtin–a to pocasitic diseases