NIH celebrated a new Clinical Center (CC) exhibit that commemorates the distinguished career of Nobel Laureate Dr. Harvey Alter. He won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Alter is one of six Nobelists who conducted the entirety of their award-winning research at NIH and the sole NIH Nobelist to conduct clinical research.
When Dr. Seungmi Ryu of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) was just starting her scientific career, she said “yes” to every opportunity. The more she learned, however, the more she realized she didn’t know. Soon, there came a time when she had to say “no” if she was to focus on a specific research area.
More than 2,500 years ago, a mysterious plague raged through Athens. As much as a quarter of the city’s population died, said Dr. Philip Mackowiak. “The mysterious outbreak was one of the first well-described pandemics. Despite 2,000 years of speculation, it’s yet to be diagnosed.”
NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli recently visited the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine and lectured at its Department of Surgery. While there, she discussed how NIH is translating clinical research into tactical application in primary care.
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Cancer cells that die via apoptosis (larger dark purple structures) expel their nuclear contents (orange and yellow stringy structures) to spur metastasis and growth of living cancer cells (smaller light blue structures).