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Dr. Ernest Allen, Grants Pioneer, Dies
Developed NIH Peer Review Grants System
Ernest Allen, Sc.D., NLM Associate Director for Extramural
Programs from 1973 to 1981, died on May 5, 1999, in Augusta,
Georgia. He was 94. "Our country has lost a most creative and
distinguished science administrator," said Martin M. Cummings, M.D.,
NLM director emeritus, who knew him for more than 50 years. 
When Dr. Allen retired in 1981, he was widely recognized
throughout the biomedical community as the intellectual author of
the NIH peer review grants system. He began his career in the Public
Health Service in 1943 and served as Chief of the NIH Division of
Research Grants until 1960. He later served as Director of the PHS
Office of Extramural Programs and as Deputy Assistant HEW Secretary
for Grants Administration Policy. He accepted the Lasker Award of
the American Public Health Association in 1953 for his work in
inaugurating the Nation's biomedical research grant program and for
charting its successful long-range development and growth.
Allen had bachelor and master's degrees from Emory University,
and he received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from that
institution and from Clemson University. He received numerous honors
from the Department, the PHS, the NIH, and the NLM.
"His extensive experience in grants administration was extremely
important in NLM's development of productive and effective
extramural programs," said Dr. Cummings. "Above all, Ernest Allen
was a compassionate leader and humanistic colleague. He will be
remembered as a bedrock of integrity and effective human
relations."
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