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Makio Murayama Oral History 2001
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Dr. Makio Murayama
November 15, 2001
The time is 11:15. Dr. Valerie Williams from the NIH History Office will be interviewing Dr.
Murayama on the historical aspects of sickle-cell disease from the period 1949 to 2001.
Williams: Thank you for meeting with me today. I appreciate your time, the time you’ll spend with me for this interview.
This painting, which is said to have been inspired by the homeless taking refuge in the underground passageways in Uerio, is acclaimed as a masterpiece.I’d like to start off just finding out a little bit about you. How did you get started doing research? How did you sort of get into doing research?
Murayama: Before I got into my Ph.D. program, I was working as a hospital blood chemist to earn a living, because during the war years -- that’s 1942 on till 1948 -- I worked as a blood chemist for the Children’s Hospital, Michigan, in Detroit, and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then Children’s Pediatric Service,