Matthew Anderson Kinnard, Ph.D., Retired Director of the NIH Extramural Associates Program
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Matthew Anderson Kinnard, Ph.D., Retired Director of the NIH Extramural Associates Program
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The National Institutes of Health is not a typical Federal work environment. It is located on a 300+ acre campus in Bethesda, MD. There are over 30 buildings on the grounds, and it has its own power plant, police department, and fire department. Every single employee has a hand in the great research that comes out of this premier biomedical research facility--from the maintenance staff who clean the labs to the glass washers to the cafeteria staff. If you worked at the NIH, you definitely felt you had a role to play in its mission.
Most of the early African Americans who went to work there stumbled across this hidden gem accidentally. Matt Kinnard did too. His was quite a journey from the farms in rural Tennessee to Lab scientist to NIH Administrator.
Matt Kinnard and his late wife, Regina Linden Compton Kinnard, were a very accomplished couple--he in science and she in education. Among these accomplishments is a treasured marriage of 59 years, 9 months, that have left him with so many cherished memories.
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