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From the Deputy Director for Intramural Research

The Important Role of Staff Clinicians at the NIH

BY MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, DDIR

There are some 260 care providers at NIH who have the professional designation of “Staff Clinician.” Most of the institutes’ and centers’ intramural programs and the Clinical Center employ staff clinicians who play critical roles in clinical research, facilitating their own and others' research, caring for patients, consulting on difficult clinical problems, and training the next generation of clinician-scientists.

Photographic Moment

President Barack Obama visted NIH recently and toured NIH labs at the Vaccine Research Center, including Nancy Sullivan's (pictured) and Mario Roederer's.

Colleagues: Recently Tenured

Meet some of your recently tenured colleagues: Avinash Bhandoola (pictured, NCI-CCR), Roberto Weigert (NIDCR), and Cuilin Zhang (NICHD)

Commentary

Beware of Predatory Publishers

Substandard Journals Exploit Open-Access Model

BY SUSAN BATES, NCI-CCR

The e-mail began, “Dr. Susan E. Bates, Hope you are doing well Doctor!” It was from a publishing group that “would really be grateful to you if you can assist us to successfully release the upcoming issue by your energetic and enthusiastic submission of manuscript which will be published under respective Journal for this wonderful year.”

News You Can Use

NIAID Launches ClinRegs Web Site

Navigating International Clinical Trial Regulations Couldn’t Be Easier

BY JONATHAN KAGAN, NIAID

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has launched a new Web site, ClinRegs, to help researchers explore and compare country-specific clinical-research regulatory information.

Research Briefs

NIH researchers report that: coronary vessels are thicker in HIV-infected young adults; some chemicals in sunscreesn may reproduce fertility in men; an experimental Ebola vaccine is successful in a clinical trial; confirmation of important brain-reward pathways; how the environment contributes to several human diseases, and chronic high blood glucose may be detrimental to the developing brain of young children.

News Briefs

NCCAM has a new name; Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Caja's original drawings of neurons are on loan from Spain at the Porter Neuroscience Building; the U.S. Senate approved a new surgeon general; and a collection of historic nursing postcards are on display at the National Library of Medicine.

Independent Research at the NIH…For This High Schooler

BY JOSH TARPLIN, NCATS

On a Thursday afternoon, the final bell rings at school, and I head to NIH in Bethesda. As I arrive on campus, excited to see how my cells are faring, I take a moment to gaze at the vast Clinical Center and wonder how many patients are being treated.

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