October 6, 2017

31st Research Festival Celebrates Science, People Who Do It

By Carla Garnett

“The Research Festival is about the science we do here, but also about the people who do that science,” noted NIH deputy director for intramural research Dr. Michael Gottesman, opening this year’s event.

Undiagnosed Diseases Program Seeks to Solve Medical Mysteries

By Eric Bock

When patients can’t get a diagnosis, they turn to Dr. William Gahl, head of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) and clinical director at NHGRI.
NIAID Scientists Find Gene Behind Colleague’s Eponymous Syndrome

By Judith Lavelle

Dr. Michael Lenardo will join Dr. Thomas Waldmann to give a Clinical Center Grand Rounds lecture on their discoveries.
NIA’s Summer Student Poster Day Celebrates 25 Years

Student scientists from across the United States showcased their work recently at the 25th annual National Institute on Aging Summer Program Poster Day.

Enzyme repairing DNA. Like a watch wrapped around a wrist, a special enzyme encircles the double helix to repair a broken strand of DNA.

Photo: Tom Ellenberger, Washington Univ. Sch. of Med. & Dave Gohara, Saint Louis Univ. Sch. of Med.

31st Research Festival Celebrates Science, People Who Do It