[4][5] Their mission is still, as stated in the institute's first annual report, to serve "pressing demands of a large population" as "a vast manufacturing and dignostic enterprise.
The 1942-founded PHRI was initially housed in the New York City Department of Health's Laboratories;[1][2] the latter preceded the turn of the nineteenth century.
[citation needed] PHRI was unique in being the only basic medical research organization in the nation that received substantial municipal support.
[9] PHRI operated independently until 2006 when it merged with UMDNJ and was established as a research center of the University and New Jersey Medical School.
PHRI researchers now hold faculty positions in the departments of medicine, microbiology, biochemistry and molecular genetics of New Jersey Medical School.