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27.02.2024 | Global Health Services Research
Jeffrey Norton and the Legacy of the Surgical Metabolism Section of the Surgery Branch of the NCI
Erschienen in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Ausgabe 6/2024
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August 14, 1989 was a typical hot humid summer day in suburban Washington, D.C. I remember the occasional light clouds slowly floating across the blue sky as I made my way to building 31, the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) headquarters, to start a new position at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda Maryland, a beautiful and at that time, open suburban campus on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. With its manicured grounds and stately buildings, it had the feel and look of a university campus. The surgery branch occupied the second floor of the B-wing of the enormous Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, a research hospital that sat at the center of campus and was shared by all the institutes and centers of the NIH for all their clinical or translational research programs and associated clinical activities (Fig. 1). The surgical metabolism section occupied laboratories in two rooms along the B corridor, 2B01 and 2B17, that are memorialized in numerous publications that came out of the section during its 30 years in existence (Fig. 2).
Fig. 1
Aerial view of the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland around 1990. The large red brick building in the right center of the picture is the Warren G. Magnuson Clinic Center. The road at the bottom of the photo is Wisconsin Avenue, which runs roughly north to south. Georgetown, in Washington D.C., is about 8 miles south going towards the left of the picture. This photo is US government property and in the public domain
Fig. 2
This photo was taken by the author circa 1991 and shows the corridor of the second floor of the B-wing in the Clinical Center where room 2B01 (at the end of the hall on the right) and room 2B17 (near right), the laboratories and offices of the Surgical Metabolism Section, were located. Even at that time the building was aging and housing a level of research activity that it was not originally designed to support. Note the continuous line of freezers, centrifuges, and cabinets along the corridor making it tight to walk side by side
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