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From the Annals of NIH History

Dr. Joseph Goldberger and Pellagra: A Fearsome Disease Tamed

BY GORDON MARGOLIN, OFFICE OF NIH HISTORY AND STETTEN MUSEUM

To live in the American South in the early 1900s, you would have had to survive an uncontrolled epidemic known for its fatal consequences. The disease, pellagra, had been a worldwide scourge for about two centuries, with no known treatment. In 1914, Joseph Goldberger, an epidemiologist employed by the Hygienic Laboratory (forerunner of NIH), was assigned the task of determining the etiology of pellagra and hopefully finding a cure.

Colleagues: Recently Tenured

Meet your recently tenured colleagues: Sridhar Hannenhalli (NCI-CCR); Patricia Jensen (NIEHS); Lisa Mirabello (NCI-DCEG, pictured); John “Jay” Schneekloth Jr. (NCI-CCR); and Douglas R. Stewart (NCI-DCEG)

New National Academy of Medicine Members

Congratulations to the four NIHers who are among the 100 new members recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine: Michael Lenardo (NIAID), Luigi D. Notarangelo (NIAID), Andre Nussenzweig (NCI), and Julie A. Segre (NHGRI).

New Methods

ScPopCorn Gets to the Kernel of Single-Cell Experiments

BY TERESA PRZYTYCKA, NCBI

Researchers at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information have created a new algorithm called scPopCorn (single-cell subpopulations comparison) to capture the differences among populations of cells from single-cell experiments.

Research Briefs

Read about discoveries made by NIH intramural researchers: Improved gene therapy for sickle-cell disease; ALS gene may be a hitchhiker’s gene to the neuron; household bleach inactivates chronic wasting disease prions; how the brain can turn pain signals up or down; microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury; and more.

Applying Your Ph.D. Skills to Careers in Science Policy

BY CRAIG MYRUM, NIA

One sector in which a growing number of postdoctoral fellows are seeking, and finding, careers is science policy.

Photographic Moment

“Eye of the Beholder”

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so they say, but what is it that makes us perceive beauty?

From the Deputy Director for Intramural Research

It’s Time to Talk!

BY MICHAEL GOTTESMAN AND KATHRYN PARTIN

Successful, resilient scientists need formal training in ethical decision-making as well as in the other aspects of the responsible conduct of research.