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JAMA. 1970;211(3):492.

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At the recent Clinical Convention of the Association, the House of Delegates voted that the Institute for Biomedical Research be discontinued as soon as the Board of Directors of the American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation deems feasible. The reason was clear. Funding of the Institute by the AMA on even the modest scale that had been necessary was severely threatened by the expectation of a sizable tax bite on allegedly "unrelated" income. Moreover, removal of the Institute to a site adjacent to the University of Chicago campus had been advocated by the Director, George W. Beadle. Implicit in such a move was the expense of construction and a larger operating budget. (In spite of continued statements to the contrary in some news stories, the Institute never received funds from the grants that support the Project for Research on Tobacco and Health.)

In 1963, when the Board of Directors . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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