Sir Henry Dale :: 1928-1942
During the Directorship of Sir Henry Dale, the first Director of the National Institute for Medical Research, the Institute was located at premises in Hampstead. The original Institute comprised three Divisions of experimental research:
- Bacteriology, including Parasitology and Virology
- Biochemistry and Pharmacology, including Organic Chemistry
- Applied Physiology
During Sir Henry's Directorship the Institute had considerable success, most notably:
- the discovery of human influenza virus (Andrewes,Smith and Laidlaw, 1933)
- the discovery of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, for which Sir Henry Dale received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.