Departments

From the Deputy Director for Intramural Research

Making Cancer History

BY MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, DDIR

Those of you who tuned into the six-hour PBS documentary Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies—a Ken Burns production based on a Pulitzer prize–winning book by Siddhartha Mukherjee—may have noticed how closely the history of cancer advances parallels the history of the NIH intramural research program.

News You Can Use

Meet the Office of Intramural Research (OIR)

Announcing the New OIR Web Site and Sourcebook

BY MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, DDIR

Research Briefs

NIH research highlights include: a genetic link for a rare intestinal cancer; no evidence of accelerated Ebola virus evolution in West Africa; how developmental signaling is controlled; circulating tumor DNA predicts recurrence of lymphoma; anti-herpes drug may help control HIV; an allergy drug inhibits hepatitis C in mice; and signals from epithelial progenitor cells promote innervation of developing organs.

Colleagues: Recently Tenured

Meet your recently tenured colleagues: Lisa Cunningham (NIDCD, pictured): Elissa Lei (NIDDK); Martin Meier-Schellersheim (NIAID); Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson (NCI-DCEG); Rajeshwari Sundaram (NICHD).

News Briefs

When United States Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland) and Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) visited NIH a few weeks ago, they pledged their support for getting more federal funding for biomedical research; to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nirenberg’s cracking of the genetic code, the National Library of Medicine held “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg.”

Laboratory Confessions

What I Learned on “Take Your Child to Work” Day

BY LIN WANJEK-YASUTAKE

Announcements

Lectures, Symposia, and other NIH Events.

Announcements-Kudos

Congratulations to Alan Hinnebusch (NICHD) and Warren Leonard (NHLBI), who are new National Academy of Sciences members; Roger Glass, winner of the 2015 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award; and Michael Lenardo (NIAID) and Wei Yang (NIDDK), who were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.