NIH Director's Statement on the Departure of Dr. Nina Schor

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

I write to share with you the news that Nina Schor, M.D., Ph.D., NIH’s Deputy Director for Intramural Research (DDIR), will be departing from federal service on September 30, 2025. Dr. Schor has served in this role since August 2022, overseeing a massive and complex enterprise of government scientists, program directors, and policy experts as they work to improve the health of the American public. During her tenure, many NIH-wide projects and policies have contributed to advancement towards that important goal.

As DDIR, Dr. Schor leads the NIH Office of Intramural Research (OIR) overseeing faculty recruitment and development, research regulatory affairs, technology transfer, training and education, and research integrity for the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP), as well as the NIH Stetten Museum. Under Dr. Schor’s leadership, OIR has created and piloted ChIRP, an AI-powered chatbot that gives NIH staff and scientists secure access to the latest large language models (LLMs), as well as launched initiatives to improve data sharing within NIH and enable the creation of custom AI tools for our staff. Furthermore, Dr. Schor has led OIR programs that facilitate NIH-funded collaborations between research groups at NIH and teams of scientists around the country, and she has helped guide NIH toward validation of alternatives to animal models in biomedical research. All these accomplishments have come as she has deftly led OIR’s oversight and support of the thousands of scientific and clinical studies conducted at NIH and its investments in training the next generation of scientists to ensure the United States remains at the forefront of biomedical innovation and discovery.