Karen Kreeger | May 15, 1994 | 7 min read
AUTHOR: KAREN YOUNG KREEGER, pp.14 Date: May 16,1994 Arthritis, AIDS, and signal transduction may not be areas of investigation that immediately come to mind when one thinks of dental research. But the National Institute of Dental Research's (NIDR) range of interests and achievement has in recent years broadened well beyond the institute's original 1948 mandate to improve the oral health of the American people. In 1948, a congre