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Advancements through clinical research also depend on
having a cadre of investigators trained to do it, Gallin
added. “Students in the health sciences and clinicians come
here to learn how to conduct clinical research by working
closely with NIH investigators. Since 1995, more than
22,000 students around the world have participated in the
Clinical Center’s clinical research training curriculum
offered through distance-learning programs.”
The original hospital opened in 1953. A new research
hospital, the 240-bed Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research
Center, opened in 2004. Most of NIH’s 27 institutes and
centers conduct clinical research at the Clinical Center
through their programs on the NIH campus in Bethesda,
Md. NIH plans to open the facility for use by external
researchers, based on the 2010 recommendations from
the Scientific Management Review Board, established
under the NIH Reform Act of 2006, which will allow the
Clinical Center to facilitate clinical research on a broader
scale. On September 28, 2011, patients, staff and other
members of the CC family gathered for a community
celebration in the CC atrium.
THE CLINICAL CENTER OF THE
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
For serving since its inception as a model research hospital —
providing innovative therapy and high-quality patient care,
treating rare and severe diseases, and producing outstanding
physician-scientists whose collective work has set a standard
of excellence in biomedical research.
For more about the award and the Clinical Center,
Patients Jerry Sachs and
Mandy Young represented
the CC’s partners
in research at the Lasker
Award ceremony
visit clinicalcenter.nih.gov/ccaward.html
A N N U A L R E P O RT 2 0 1 2 • 7
The award—a replica of the
“Winged Victory of Samothrace,”
also called “Nike of Samothrace,”
sculpture created by the Greeks
in 190 BC to honor the goddess
of victory—was chosen by Mary
Lasker because it represented in
her words, “victory over disability,
disease, and death.” The CC’s
award is on permanent display
on the first floor to the east of
the South elevators, across from
the wall honoring the NIH Lasker
awardees.