Bridging the gap between clinician and chemist

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Founded by the British Medical Research Committee (afterwards to become the Medical Research Council) in 1914, the National Institute for Medical Research moved into its first home, the Mount Vernon Hospital in Hampstead, London, in 1920. It became necessary to expand and a new building was constructed some IO miles away at Mill Hill. This is the site of the present institute which was not fully occupied until 1950. In the following article R. K. Callow, who was a member of the National Institute _for Medical Research stafffrom 19291966 (although absent on war service) reminisces on the early days of medical research at the institute.