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March 29, 2024

  • Alter speaks at a podium

    CC Exhibit Honors Career of Nobel Laureate Alter

    By Eric Bock

    NIH celebrated a new Clinical Center (CC) exhibit that commemorates the distinguished career of Nobel Laureate Dr. Harvey Alter. He won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Alter is one of six Nobelists who conducted the entirety of their award-winning research at NIH and the sole NIH Nobelist to conduct clinical research.
  • Dr. Ryu

    Say Yes Until You Can Say No, Says NCATS’s Ryu

    By Eric Bock

    When Dr. Seungmi Ryu of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) was just starting her scientific career, she said “yes” to every opportunity. The more she learned, however, the more she realized she didn’t know. Soon, there came a time when she had to say “no” if she was to focus on a specific research area.
  • Dr. Mackowiak

    ‘Plague of Athens’ Cause Remains a Mystery

    By Eric Bock

    More than 2,500 years ago, a mysterious plague raged through Athens. As much as a quarter of the city’s population died, said Dr. Philip Mackowiak. “The mysterious outbreak was one of the first well-described pandemics. Despite 2,000 years of speculation, it’s yet to be diagnosed.”
  • Bertagnolli smiling at podium with UAB logo backdrop

    Bertagnolli Visits UAB, Delivers Surgery Grand Rounds

    By Emme Stewart

    NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli recently visited the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine and lectured at its Department of Surgery. While there, she discussed how NIH is translating clinical research into tactical application in primary care.
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Cancer cells that die via apoptosis (larger dark purple structures) expel their nuclear contents (orange and yellow stringy structures) to spur metastasis and growth of living cancer cells (smaller light blue structures).

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The NIH Record

The NIH Record, founded in 1949, is the biweekly newsletter for employees of the National Institutes of Health.

Published 25 times each year, it comes out on payday Fridays.

Assistant Editor: Eric Bock
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Staff Writer: Amber Snyder
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