April 20, 2018

Town Hall Updates Progress On ‘Optimize NIH’

By Carla Garnett

At an NIH-wide town hall meeting on the effort to “Optimize NIH,” NIH principal deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak wanted to make one thing clear at the outset.

World Bank’s Kim Describes Conversion at Chat

By Rich McManus

Eighteen years before he was named 12th president of the World Bank Group in 2012, Dr. Jim Yong Kim was advocating for the bank to be mothballed; 1994 was the bank’s 50th year, and Kim thought an appropriate birthday gift that year would be to shut it down.
Big Data Clouds Are Feeding Personalized Nutrition

By Dana Talesnik

An apple a day doesn’t really keep the doctor away, but what if you knew what did, for you personally?
NIH Launches HEAL Initiative to Stem Opioid Epidemic

At the 2018 National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit on Apr. 4 in Atlanta, NIH director Dr. Francis Collins announced the launch of the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative.

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Lung on a chip. Combining microfabrication techniques with modern tissue engineering, the lung-on-a-chip offers new in vitro approach to drug screening by mimicking mechanical and biochemical behaviors of a human lung.

Photo: Wyss Institute, Harvard University (Supported by NIH Common Fund & FDA)

April 20, 2018

Town Hall Updates Progress On ‘Optimize NIH’

World Bank’s Kim Describes Conversion at Chat

Big Data Clouds Are Feeding Personalized Nutrition

NIH Launches HEAL Initiative to Stem Opioid Epidemic

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