Dr. Monica Bertagnolli was formally sworn in on Dec. 6 as 17th NIH director by Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra. On the same day, she assisted in a surgery at the Clinical Center and held her first media briefing virtually, during which she outlined her priorities leading NIH.
President Joe Biden visited a pharmacy at NIH’s Clinical Center on Dec. 14 to discuss efforts to reduce the costs of prescription drugs. He discussed the inflation reduction legislation as well as other initiatives to lower prices for drugs developed using federal research funds.
Black/African-American and Hispanic/Latino populations are consistently underrepresented in dementia studies. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) recently hosted a webinar to explore how to make Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia clinical trials more inclusive.
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SARS-CoV-2 (magenta) infects alveolar and airway tissues (blue) of human mini-lungs derived in vitro from human pluripotent stem cells.
Photo: Laboratory of stem cell biology and molecular embryology/the Rockefeller University