Established by Bernard and Barbro Osher in 2006, this fund honors the late Dr. Stephen E. Straus, the founding director of NIH’s National Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). It supports the Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. This annual lecture brings leading figures in science and medicine to NIH to speak about their perspective on the field of complementary and alternative medicine. Open to the public, the lecture is videocast and archived on the NCCAM Web site.