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Dr. Olden
was named director of the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences (NIEHS) and the director of the National Toxicology Program
(NTP) on June 18, 1991, by Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. He is the first African-American
to become director of one of the 18 institutes of the National Institutes
of Health during the history of the agency. Dr. Olden is a cell biologist
and biochemist by training, and has been active in research into the
properties of cell surface molecules and their possible roles in cancer
for more than two decades. He was director of the Howard University
Cancer Center and professor and chairman of the Department of Oncology
at Howard University Medical School (1985-1991), Washington, D.C., before
coming to NIEHS. He joined Howard in 1979 as Associate Director for
Research after a stint at the National Institutes of Health, first as
a senior staff fellow, then expert, then research biologist in the Division
of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute. Ken Olden
was born in Parrottsville, Tennessee. He earned his bachelor's degree
in biology from Knoxville College, his master's degree at the University
of Michigan, and his doctoral degree from Temple University, with research
done at the University of Rochester. He held postdoctoral fellowships
and then was a Macy Faculty Fellow as an instructor at Harvard Medical
School before joining NIH.
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