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Sid Gilman, M.D.

Laboratory Member

Donated to the Office of NIH History

by Dr. Sid Gilman

NIMH, but the space available would not have allowed them to estab­

lish even skeletal programs. After months of discussions no solutions

emerged, and the recruitment of a laboratory chief and the planned es­

tablishment of two additional sections in the laboratory were dropped.^16

In late June 1960, the joint NIMH-NINDB intramural basic re­

search program was dissolved and independent intramural basic research

programs were created within each institute. The NIMH was not much

affected by this transition, but the new NINDB intramural leadership,

under Milton Shy, created a Laboratory of Neurochemistry within the

NINDB headed by Donald B. Tower that included Brady’s Section on

Lipid Chemistry.^17

Notes

1. For further information on the history of this field, see Donald B. Tower,
   “Neurochemistry–100 Years, 1875-1975,” Annals of Neurology 1, no. 1 (1977):
   2-36 and Donald B. Tower, “The American Society for Neurochemistry
   (ASN)–Antecedents, Founding, and Early Years,” Journal of Neurochemistry
   48, no. 1 (1987): 313-326.


2. Proposed Organization of Basic Research Program of NIMH and NINDB,
   August 29, 1952, RG 511, NARA; Kety, NIMH Annual Report, 1955.


3. NIH Report, 1951-1952.


4. Kety, NIMH Annual Reports, 1954-1956; Livingston, NIMH Annual
   Report, 1957.


5. Kety, NIMH Annual Reports, 1954-1956; Livingston, NIMH Annual
   Report, 1957.


6. Livingston, NIMH Annual Report, 1958; see Laboratory of Cellular
   Pharmacology review for further information.