Features

Pushing the Frontiers of Imaging

Advanced Imaging and Microscopy Facility Opens in Building 13

BY SUSAN CHACKO, CIT

The walls are freshly painted, new shelves have been installed, and the microscopes are being moved in. The sparkling new Advanced Imaging and Microscopy (AIM) facility in Building 13 on the NIH Bethesda campus is open for business. It’s a trans-NIH core facility that houses, operates, disseminates, and improves noncommercial, prototype optical-imaging systems.

Getting to Know 11 Stadtmans

More Investigators Join the Stadtman Ranks

BY LAURA STEPHENSON CARTER

Meet 11 more investigators who have become part of the Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator Program. The program, which was launched in 2009 and named for the legendary biochemist who worked at NIH for 50 years, is designed to recruit a diverse group of talented, early-career scientists pursuing interests across the biomedical-research spectrum. (Pictured: Sergio Ruiz Macias, NCI-CCR.)

Recognizing 35 Years of Progress in Sjögren Syndrome Research

NIDCR Hosts a Special Grand Rounds to Celebrate

BY CATHERINE EVANS, NIDCR

In 1984, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) established a clinic to evaluate people with salivary dysfunction and to better understand and find more effective treatments. To mark the clinic’s 35th anniversary, NIDCR hosted a special grand rounds in November 2019 to trace the past, present, and future of research on the condition.

NEI: Using Artificial Intelligence for Quality Control of Stem Cell–Derived Tissues

Technique key to scaling up manufacture of therapies from induced pluripotent stem cells

BY KATHRYN DEMOTT, NEI

Researchers from the National Eye Institute and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate stem cell–derived “patches” of retinal pigment epithelium tissue for implanting into the eyes of patients with age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

Obituaries 2019

Former NIH scientists and other NIH-affiliated people who died in 2019.