Email: N.Rasmussen AT unsw.edu.au

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Research interests include the the history of cell and molecular biology since the 1930s, the history of clinical trials and their regulation in the US, the history of collaborations between academic biomedical scientists and the drug industry, and the history of prescription drug abuse and control policy. A recent major research project concerns the discovery of obesity as a public health problem in the United States during the 1950s, and the policy and cultural responses to that discovery. He is now working on the history of the gut flora and the symbiotic microbiome concept since the 1950s.