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From the Deputy Director for Intramural Research

Creating a More Diverse and Inclusive NIH

BY MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, HANNAH VALANTINE, AND ROLAND OWENS

Evidence indicates that heterogeneous groups of talented individuals, with experience in managing diversity, are better equipped to tackle complex problems than are homogeneous groups.

Research Briefs

Read about recent intramural research advances: first photoactive drug to fight Parkinson disease; possible link between gestational diabetes and early-stage kidney disease; enhancing tumor response to radiotherapy; obesity associated with lower breast-cancer risk; stopping cancer metastasis; and more.

Colleagues: Recently Tenured

Meet your recently tenured colleagues: Bibiana Bielekova (NIAID, pictured), Stephen Gilman (NICHD), Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky (NIAID), Nasser Rusan (NHLBI), Humphrey Hung-Chang Yao (NIEHS).

Announcements: Kudos

Gottesman and Waterman Elected to NAS

Michael Gottesman and Clare Waterman have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for 2018. Together they join more than 40 active NIH scientists in the NAS.

The SIG Beat

NEWS FROM AND ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC INTEREST GROUPS

Read about the new SIG, the Metals in Biology Scientific Interest Group; Susan Harbison’s talk for the SGHD SIG about sex differences in (fruit fly) sleep; and the SBIG/MPIG Student and Postdoc Symposium that featured research on how structural biology provides a high-resolution view deep into the molecular architecture of cells.

The Training Page

Advice from an Early Career Investigator

BY JENNIFER SIZEMORE, NIGMS

Rather than feeling discouraged when an experiment yields unexpected results, try to understand what happened and why, said University of Kentucky biologist Jeramiah Smith, who visited NIH to give career advice to undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers in biomedical research.

Photographic Moment

Butterfly Effect

NIMH Visiting Fellow Joanna Cross captured this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on film recently.

Announcements

News about events, deadlines, 2018 NIH Research Festival (September 12–14), and more.