Monday, April 23, 2018 to Tuesday, April 24, 2018 (register by April 6)
NIH Natcher Conference Center (Building 45)
The Centers of Excellence in Integrative Cancer Biology & Genomics (CEICBG) and Chromosome Biology (CECB), CCR, NCI, will host an international symposium on the topic "Molecular Biology in Single Cells.” The symposium is designed to bring investigators to the NIH campus to discuss current advances in fields related to cancer research. This meeting will highlight important advances in the study of cell function through single cell genomics and live cell imaging approaches. The symposium will draw investigators from the entire NIH community, as well as from many academic institutions throughout the U.S and abroad.
Online registration is free and required — the registration deadline is April 6.
Monday, April 23, 2018, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
NIH Clinical Center (Building 10), Lipsett Amphitheater
Research has identified many barriers to the optimal management of chronic pain in primary care. The report from the National Institutes of Health’s Pathways to Prevention workshop on “The Role of Opioids in the Treatment of Chronic Pain” notes, for example, that most primary care clinicians are overburdened and “work in health systems not designed or equipped for chronic pain management.”
As part of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health's (NCCIH) Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series, Dr. Erin E. Krebs, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, will present on the characteristics and clinical needs of patients with chronic pain, including those receiving long-term opioid therapy; the implications of recent and ongoing research on managing chronic pain; and opportunities to improve its management in primary care.
The NCCIH Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series provides overviews of the current state of research and practice involving complementary health approaches and explores perspectives on the emerging discipline of integrative medicine.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 10:00 am to 11:30 am
NIH Clinical Center (Building 10), Masur Auditorium
This year marks the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. To commemorate the Institute's 70th anniversary and showcase important investments in scientific research, NHLBI will feature lectures throughout the year from prominent researchers representing areas of high scientific priority in heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. Please join us for the second of these lectures, "Hearts, Spiders, and Relaxation: Voyages in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy" with Christine Seidman, M.D., of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Thursday, April 26, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
NIH Neuroscience Center Building (Room B1/B2), 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD
Although improvements have been seen in the outcome for children and adolescents with cancer over the past 4 decades, challenges remain for treatment and the ultimate goal of curing all pediatric patients. Precision medicine trials have been ongoing in medical oncology but not to the same extent in pediatric oncology. NCI-COG Pediatric Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (Pediatric MATCH) is a nationwide trial to explore whether targeted therapies can be effective for children and adolescents with solid tumors that harbor specific genetic mutations and have progressed during or after standard therapy. The National Cancer Institute and the Children’s Oncology Group [a member of the NCI’s National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN)] developed the protocol with input from the FDA and pharmaceutical companies. This is the first pediatric precision medicine trial of this scale that is being done in pediatric oncology. Despite having the NCI MATCH trial as a model, numerous challenges were encountered unique to this patient population in developing a trial and will be discussed during the presentation.
Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 7:30 am to 5:45 pm (register by May 1)
NIH Natcher Conference Center (Building 45)
The Fogarty International Center at NIH has had a rich and varied legacy since its establishment in 1968. The Center is dedicated to advancing the NIH mission by supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global health needs. The Center's 50th Anniversity Symposium is titled "What are the new frontiers in global health research?" Immediately following the Symposium, the Foundation for the NIH invites you to attend a reception on the NIH Campus. There is no fee, but registration is required to attend in person.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 10:00 am to 3:30 pm
NIH Natcher Conference Center (Building 45)
Postbac Poster Day provides an opportunity for postbacs to share the research they have been conducting at the NIH and at the same time develop their scientific communication and networking skills. Posters will be reviewed by teams composed of graduate students, postdocs, and staff scientists/clinicians. The authors of the top 20% will receive a letter acknowledging their accomplishments. Investigators, staff scientists, and scientific administrators can make a particularly important contribution to Postbac Poster Day by visiting posters and engaging their authors in discussion.
The keynote address will begin at 12:00 p.m. followed by the presentation of Postbac Distinguished Mentoring Awards to NIH investigators selected by the postbacs. Poster Session I will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and Poster Session II from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 3, 2018, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
In 2014, the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) recommended the standard capture of 12 health-related social and behavioral measures in electronic health records (EHR). Social and behavioral measures are now routinely collected in many EHR systems and are increasingly used in clinical care and population health assessment. Routine screening for a patient’s unmet social needs and adverse health behaviors, combined with referral to precision interventions to reduce the patient’s health risks associated with these “social determinants,” is an emerging trend in healthcare. This one-day workshop will highlight recent innovative applications and ongoing research and facilitate dialogue between scientific researchers in the field and staff from National Institutes of Health and other Federal agencies regarding future research directions.
The meeting is free and open to the public. Free registration for this event is required. Please register to attend this meeting in person.
Thursday, May 3, 2018, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
NIH Natcher Conference Center (Building 45), Auditoriums A&B
This year marks the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). To commemorate the Institute's 70th anniversary and showcase important investments in scientific research, NHLBI will feature lectures throughout the year from prominent thought leaders representing areas of high scientific priority in heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. Please join us for the third of these lectures, “Understanding the Journey: The Past, Present, and Future of Cardiovascular Disease in Women " with Dr. Nanette Wenger of Emory University Division of Medicine. Please click here to register for this event.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
NIH John Porter Neuroscience Research Center (Building 35A), Rooms 620/630
Clint T. Allen, M.D., principal investigator of the Translational Tumor Immunology Program at the NIH’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), will discuss a National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical trial in which his research team is exploring ways to shrink benign (noncancerous) tumors in the airways caused by certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV). Dr. Allen's research team is harnessing knowledge about how the immune system fights cancer to test a treatment for a rare disorder called recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP), in which benign tumors grow rapidly in the air passages leading from the nose and mouth and into the lungs. Emerging evidence suggests that virus-associated disorders such as RRP may respond well to immunotherapy. This research could lead to new treatments for RRP and for head and neck cancers.
This lecture is part of a series of talks by NIDCD researchers called Beyond the Lab, Understanding Communication Disorders. The speaker series is an opportunity for everyone inside and outside of the NIH—administrative staff, support staff, scientists, and the public—to learn about the NIDCD’s recent advances in communication disorders, conditions that significantly affect about 20 percent of U.S. adults during their lifetime.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 to Thursday, May 24, 2018 (register by May 1)
NIH Natcher Conference Center (Building 45)
The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) program invites all NIH researchers to join us for the 2018 Annual Meeting. ITCR is a trans-NCI program supporting investigator-initiated informatics technology development driven by critical needs in cancer research. The program fosters a community of developers and users in cancer informatics and promotes the dissemination and use of these technologies and their collaborative, open source development.
The ITCR 2018 Annual Meeting will bring together ITCR investigators and NIH/NCI staff with the goal of knowledge sharing and collaboration. This will be a highly interactive event with presentations, demonstrations, and poster sessions. Attendees will learn about the advanced informatics technologies developed by ITCR investigators in the areas of imaging, -omics, network biology and clinical research. NCI Director, Dr. Ned Sharpless, will share his perspective on the role of informatics in cancer research during his plenary talk on Thursday, May 24th. Registration is required for this event.
Monday, July 23, 2018 to Friday, July 27, 2018 (Application Deadline: April 27)
The Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI), hosted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), aims to support the research career development of promising minority health/health disparities research scientists early in their careers and stimulate research in the disciplines supported by health disparities science. The program will feature lectures on minority health and health disparities research, small group discussions, mock grant review, and seminars. Institute participants will also have the opportunity to meet with NIH scientific staff engaged in related health disparities research across the various NIH Institutes and Centers.
This program is intended for early stage research investigators. Applications will only be accepted from post-doctoral fellows, assistant professors, or individuals in similar early stage research career positions who are engaged in minority health and health disparities research. Early career researchers from diverse backgrounds interested in the conduct of health research, within academic, community-based, non-profit, and other non-academic settings, are encouraged to apply before April 27, 2018.
