Snapshots
A Celebration of NIH Intramural Research
The 2024 Research Festival did not disappoint! From high-profile lectures to poster sessions, and from vendor events to workshops, these three days of festivities dedicated to highlighting NIH’s latest and greatest intramural research had something for every curious mind.
Save the date for next year’s Research Festival, slated for September 8–11, 2025.
CREDIT: MARLEEN VAN DEN NESTE, NIH
DDIR Nina Schor offered welcoming remarks at the opening session on Monday, Sept. 23.
The Research Festival resource information fair and biomedical vendor event, held September 23–25 at the Building 10 South Lobby and FAES Terrace, attracted more than a thousand attendees. Hundreds more came for the Green Labs Fair on September 26.
CREDIT: MARLEEN VAN DEN NESTE, NIH
CREDIT: MARLEEN VAN DEN NESTE, NIH
CREDIT: MARLEEN VAN DEN NESTE, NIH
Giorgio Trinchieri (NCI), Kyung Kwon-Chung (NIAID), and Thomas Kunkel (NIEHS), delivered lectures about their scientific careers during the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) mini-symposium.
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Pictured left to right are Giorgio Trinchieri (NCI), DDIR Nina Schor, Kyung Kwon-Chung (NIAID), and Thomas Kunkel (NIEHS), who each offered inspirational lectures about the peaks and valleys of their scientific careers during the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) mini-symposium. Part two of the NAS mini-symposium will be held November 13, 2–3 p.m., in the Masur Auditorium in Building 10, featuring Sandra Wolin (NCI) and Steven Rosenberg (NCI).
Karen Laky (NIAID) offered a workshop for the TGF-beta Scientific Interest Group on Monday, September 23. Her talk was titled “TGF-beta Signaling in Development, Homeostasis, and Disease.”
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Stephen Whitehead, senior investigator and chief at NIAID’s Arbovirus Vaccine Research Section shared his scientific challenges in developing a dengue vaccine at the Philip S. Chen Jr., Ph.D., Distinguished Lecture on Innovation and Technology Transfer on September 25.
CREDIT: MARLEEN VAN DEN NESTE, NIH
Learn more about dengue vaccine development in this “Speaking of Science” podcast.
The poster sessions allowed scientists and clinicians an opportunity to come together and discuss their latest discoveries. From bench-to-bedside is a common term heard in the hallways of Building 10, where the Research Festival takes place each year. Read more about the scientists and clinicians who presented their work in this "I Am Intramural" guest article.
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More than 400 research posters were on display during the three poster sessions held on Monday, September 23. A virtual research poster event also was held Tuesday, September 24.
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Enthusiasm levels could hardly be contained at the poster sessions on Monday, September 23.
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Attendees discussed this research poster about the NCATS Rare Disease Alert System.
Namesakes: Victoria Harden and Philip Chen have annual lectures named after them for their extraordinary contributions to the NIH community.
CREDIT: SAINT RIEWESTAHL, ONHM
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 5, 2024