Meet your recently tenured colleagues: Christian Abnet (NCI-DCEG), Brian Brooks (NEI), Christopher Buck (NCI-CCR), Yie Liu (NIA), and Rosa Puertollano (NHLBI), pictured.
FDA scientists moved from NIH’s Building 29 complex to the new White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland; several vials of smallpox virus (samples from the 1950s) were found on campus and safely transferred to the CDC; NIH has been doing research for decades to eradicate the Ebola virus (pictured).
NIH researchers have figured out a way to regenerate teeth; developed an experimental vaccine to prevent the mosquito-borne disease chikungunya; invented a nasal brush that can rapidly diagnose an incurable prion disease in humans; made a discovery about how a sickle-cell drug works; developed a new sickle-cell drug that has been acquired by a pharmaceutical company; and more.
This Houghton Mifflin test material was part of the “Form L Revised Stanford-Binet Scale,” used by National Institute of Mental Health researchers in the 1950s to test the intelligence of children taking part in certain clinical studies.
NINR Director’s Lecture, NIH Research Festival, Chen Lecture, NIH-Japan Symposium, Cajal exhibit, records schedules, workshop on using advanced technologies in biomedical research, NCATS Toxicology Challenge, and more.
