| Sumario: | A profile of Kenneth Olden, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program. During his 12-year tenure, Olden has transformed both NIH components from relatively obscure, basic science–oriented organizations into diversified sources not only of basic research but also of an interdisciplinary research agenda, community involvement, and international outreach in environmental health. Olden, who is the first African-American to head a division of the NIH, attributes much of his success at administration to his early life in the poverty-stricken town of Parrottsville, Tennessee.
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