The inaugural NIH Big Read featured Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee talking about his latest book "The Gene: An Intimate History."
Dr. Mark Schiffman’s Robert S. Gordon Jr. Lecture might well have served as a primer on the meaning of an NIH career. It was heartfelt, impassioned, honest, funny, encouraging and offered good news about preventing cervical cancer via vaccination.
If all goes according to plan, Hakan Bardakci will be in Russia this November, competing for a martial arts championship. The 33-year-old, a project officer with the Office of Research Facilities, competed in his first-ever national sambo championship outside of Philadelphia.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria (yellow, round items) killing and escaping from a human white cell
