extramural

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Mead also brought along a powerful funder, John Eberhardt, the director of NIMH’s extramural research, who hovered in the background as an “interested observer.”

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

Michael Lauer, head of NIH’s extramural research, says that secrecy is necessary to protect the privacy of individual scientists, who are not government employees.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 22, 2023

Michael Lauer, deputy director of extramural research at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, doesn’t think the NIH’s activity is affecting partnerships between US researchers and those in China.

From Nature • Jul. 7, 2020

Only during this extramural errand do Vollman and Bevins realize that Lincoln is the President, five or six chief executives after Tyler and Polk, the incumbents they remember.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

It was first used as an extramural cemetery at the time of the first French occupation, but has been very greatly extended since that time.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various