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Early-Career Investigators to Speak on Disease Prevention

NIH’s Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) will host a week of Early-Stage Investigator Lectures (ESIL) featuring the 2025 awardees, Drs. Nilay S. Shah, Julia Chen-Sankey and Michael Fang. Each will focus on a different prevention topic: cardiovascular disease, e-cigarette use and type 1 diabetes. Each lecture will take place via webinar, with Shah and Chen-Sankey presenting at 10:00 a.m. ET on June 4 and 5, respectively, and Fang presenting on June 6 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

Bhattacharya Visits Medical College of Wisconsin

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya joined Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) President and CEO Dr. John Raymond, Sr. for the MCW President’s Speaker Series on May 2. Bhattacharya shared NIH’s vision at the quarterly series, which aims to advance diverse viewpoints of medical education and understanding of freedom of expression to engage in constructive exchanges of ideas and perspectives.

Bhattacharya Tours NIH’s Bethesda Campus

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and other senior staff toured campus on April 9. 

In the Clinical Center, they met with Dr. Steven Rosenberg, chief of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI)surgery branch, to learn more about his groundbreaking immunotherapy research. They also were briefed by investigators in NCI’s Pediatric Oncology Branch. Then, after peering into the Clinical Center’s playroom and learning more about NIH’s bench-to-bedside work, the group headed to the Children’s Inn for a tour.

The NIH Record

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

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