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AI workshop speaker Craig Mundie (l) casts a bold vision of medical research in the machine-learning era, as NIH director Dr. Francis Collins looks on

AI Workshop Surveys Landscape, Assesses Big Ideas

It’s been nearly 160 years since Milton Bradley introduced a “Game of Life” wherein players navigate around a brightly painted board, landing on spaces that dole out good fortune and bad. Although modern editions billed it as a “game of skill and chance...Read more

Dr. Saskia Sanderson

NHGRI Alum Studies Reactions to Genomic Information

On the 15th anniversary of the founding of NHGRI’s Social and Behavioral Research Branch (and the 25th anniversary of the institute…Read more

Maya Moore of NHGRI

Summer Interns Share Their Research at Poster Day

Hundreds of students in summer training programs participated in the annual NIH Summer Research Program Poster Day...Read more

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Campus beauty. In the courtyard of the Clinical Research Center, an anemone gets its closeup.
ON THE COVER: Synapse illustration. In the nervous system, a synapse is a structure that permits a neuron (nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron. Alzheimer’s disease disrupts communication among neurons, resulting in loss of function and cell death.

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Eisenhower Signs HEW Budget Bill; NIH Share Will be $590 Million

The 1961 Labor-HEW appropriations bill was signed by President Eisenhower on September 2. The total allotted to NIH amounts to $590 million. Of the above figure, $106,722,000 is designated for direct operations, $483,278,000 for grants, including $30,000,000 for research facilities construction. Last year's total was $430 million. Funds were appropriated to NIH under nine major appropriations: for each of the seven Institutes; for research construction grants; and for general research and services. Among the Institutes the allocations were in the following amounts: (figures in millions) Cancer, $111.0; Mental Health, $100.9; Heart, $86.9; Dental, $15.5; Arthritis, $61.2; Allergy, $44.0; Neurology, $56.6. The general research and services appropriations, in which DGMS and DBS are included, amounted to $83.9.

NIH Marks Women's History Month

Ann Timmons, a communication artist, performed a one-woman play about equal rights pioneer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

"Critical Thinking." That's how women at NIH change America, according to organizers of the 2005 Women's History Month celebration, who adapted the occasion's national theme — "Women Change America" — for the NIH audience.

Leading off the celebration, sponsored by NIH's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management on Mar. 9, Ann Timmons, a communication artist, performed the one-woman play, Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Author in 1892 of The Yellow Wallpaper, a semi-autobiographical account of a woman's struggle with depression, Gilman was a pundit and lecturer on equal rights for women.


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Synapse illustration. In the nervous system, a synapse is a structure that permits a neuron (nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron. Alzheimer’s disease disrupts communication among neurons, resulting in loss of function and cell death.