Chapter 11: Leaving the NIH for a Turbulent Research Environment at MD Anderson

Abstract

In this chapter, Dr. Freireich says that "We're now in '64, and things are going along famously. I had the biggest and best pediatric leukemia service in the world. We were internationally famous. Everybody was following our lead. People came to learn how to do platelets, how to do white cells, how to do antibiotics, and how to do combination chemotherapy. We were really rolling." He then talks about why he left the National Institutes of Health and joined MD Anderson Cancer Center, his relationship with Dr. R. Lee Clark, and why his family's transition to Houston was "painful." ; https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1158/thumbnail.jpg