June 11, 2021

Performers and music lovers the world over will attest that music moves and rejuvenates us, affecting our brains in profound ways. But can investigators prove it? World-renowned soprano Renée Fleming joins researchers to help create a framework to spur data-driven research on the impact of music on health.

NIH director Dr. Francis Collins and NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci welcomed a bipartisan contingent of U.S. senators and staff members to NIH. A tour of a Vaccine Research Center lab, a demonstration of Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) technology, a briefing on mental health amid the pandemic and a discussion of the potential “ARPA-H” were packed into the afternoon.

Five employees of NIH are among 29 finalists for the 2021 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (Sammies), the nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service recently announced. The partnership called the 29 nominees “exceptional federal employees who have helped make the nation healthier, safer and more prosperous.”