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By Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD; Douglas R. Lowy, MD; and Norman E. Sharpless, MD  / March 10, 2019

A Peaceful Transformation: The Origin of the Frederick National Laboratory

JUST 2 MONTHS before Congress passed what to this day is America’s most sweeping anticancer legislation, President Richard Nixon came to Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, to declare his administration’s historic commitment to the fight. “I have come here today for the purpose of making an...