Slowing the nation’s opioid abuse/overdose epidemic and reconfiguring grant funding to reward more early-career investigators topped the agenda of the 115th meeting of the advisory committee to the NIH director (ACD) on Dec. 14-15.
Recruited from directorship of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NCI's new director, Dr. Ned Sharpless, talks about the institute's current efforts, future direction.
NCCIH director Dr. Josie Briggs’s talents in thinking through tough problems, taking on the most “gnarly” and fearsome projects and ensuring that things get done have made her a lighthouse in the community. In October, she retired.
For more than a century, scientists have wondered how cells in our eyes called microglia might play a role in neurodegenerative diseases in the brain and the retina.
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