Research Festival Events Set

In a 2016 image, NIH deputy director for intramural research Dr. Michael Gottesman cheers the annual celebration of homegrown science.

Photo:  Ernie Branson

The 2019 Research Festival will be held all day on Wednesday, Sept. 11. The format this year includes 3 plenary sessions, a “lightning round” of 3-minute talks and a midday poster session featuring posters from selected FARE award winners and tenure-track investigators. A 2-day Technical Sales Association (TSA) Exhibit Tent Show follows, Sept. 12-13.

Festival schedule includes:

• 9/11 Anniversary Observance and Moment of Silence, Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10, 8:46 a.m.—the time on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers deliberately crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into floors 93 through 99 of the North Tower, 1 World Trade Center.

• Plenary Session I. Celebrating NIH IRP Contributions to Curing Metabolic Diseases, Masur Auditorium, 9–10:50 a.m. (4 20-minute talks): Dr. Ferid Murad, George Washington University; Dr. Marston Linehan, NCI Urologic Oncology Branch chief; Dr. Josephine Egan, NIA clinical director; Dr. Kevin Hall, NIDDK integrative physiology section chief.

• Data Blitz: Lightning Round, Masur Auditorium, 11 a.m.–12:20 p.m. (about 20 3-minute talks). Postdoctoral FARE award winners provide 3-minute summaries of their research.

• Poster Session. FAES Terrace, Bldg. 10, 12:30–1:30 p.m. More than 100 scientific posters including some by select postdoctoral FARE award winners and tenure-track investigators representing each NIH institute and center with an intramural program. Also, several scientific directors compete in a bakeoff/cookoff; other light refreshments will be served.

• NIH Green Labs Fair. South Lobby, Bldg. 10, Noon-2 p.m. Exhibits and information on environmentally friendly products, practices and initiatives. Learn about products directly from their vendors, discover practices by lab staff who actually use them and inquire about NIH initiatives with folks who run them. All employees, contractors and visitors are invited.

• Special Exhibits on Intramural Resources, Central Corridor, Bldg. 10, noon-2 p.m. Tables staffed by CIT, the NIH Collaborative Research Exchange (CREx), the National Library of Medicine, the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum and more. Virtual reality demos will take place in the NIH Library.

• Lunch. Noon-2 p.m. Visit the food trucks in parking lot 10H (near the South Lobby) for set meals for sale.

• Plenary Session II. Celebrating NIH Efforts to Combat Physical and Emotional Pain, Masur Auditorium, 2-3 p.m. (4 12-minute talks). Dr. Carlos Zarate Jr., NIMH Experimental Therapeutics & Pathophysiology Branch chief; Dr. Lauren Atlas, NCCIH section on affective neuroscience and pain investigator; Dr. George Koob, NIAAA director and NIDA neurobiology of addiction section chief; Dr. Andrew Mannes, Clinical Center department of perioperative medicine chief.

• Plenary Session III. Celebrating Cutting-Edge Technologies at the IRP, Masur Auditorium, 3-4 p.m. (4 12-minute talks). Dr. Adam Phillippy, NHGRI genome informatics section head; Dr. Elizabeth Kang, hematotherapeutics unit head, genetic immunotherapy section, NIAID Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology; Dr. Hari Shroff, NIBIB section on high-resolution optical imaging senior investigator; Dr. Hannah Valantine, NHLBI Laboratory of Transplantation Genomics senior investigator.

• Award Ceremony & Reception, South Lobby, Bldg. 10, 4-5 p.m. Informal award ceremony and reception featuring food and music. Recognition of FARE awardees and winner of the cooking/baking competition. NIH Director’s band, aka “ARRA” (Affordable Rock’n’ Roll Act), in concert under the canopy of the South Lobby.

• Sept. 12-13 TSA Tent Show. Morning and early afternoon, parking lot 10H. Exhibitors will display state-of-the-art equipment and services by biomedical research suppliers. Vendors wishing to participate can register at http://www.gtpmgt.com. To view list of confirmed exhibits, visit http://www.gtpmgt.com/attendees.php?id=4.