[Athena] National Funding of Biomedical Research ( ICHST09 Budapest)

[Jean-François Picard <jean-francois.picard AT mouchez.cnrs.fr>]

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S46 National Funding of Biomedical Research  

Organisers: Giuliana Gemelli, Jean-François Picard, William H. Schneider 

(Italy/France/USA) 

 

 

Thursday, 30 July, 11.30 – 13.30 

Chair: William H. Schneider 

 

From Private Initiative to Public Government Funding of Medical Research and Public 

Health in Italy: Opportunities and Constraints 

Giuliana Gemelli 

 

The Medical Research Council in Britain: Science, Utility and Politics Since 1913. 

John V. Pickstone 

 

The First Medical Research Institute in China: The North Manchurian Plague Prevention 

Service 

Daqing Zhang 

 

The Meeting of Medicine and Biology in France: Success and Limits of Political Planning 

Jean-François Picard 

 

Thursday, 30 July, 15.00 – 17.00 

Chair: Giuliana Gemelli 

 

The Birth of the Fight Against Cancer in Europe: The Case of EORTC 

Bertrand Dargelos 

 

Internal and External Influences on the Establishment of the NIH Extramural Funding 

Program in the United States 

William H. Schneide  

 

Shaping Scientific Research with Decisions Not to Fund: The U.S. Government and 

Human-Embryo Research 

Doris T. Zallen 

 

Researching Public Health in the Age of Biomedicine: 

Luc Berlivet