The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently hosted a press teleconference and Twitter chat to discuss the findings of the 41st annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey.
The “Demystifying Medicine” course for 2016 begins on Tuesday, Jan. 5 with a lecture by Dr. Eric Kandel, co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons.
Basic researchers, tissue engineers and orthopaedic surgeons recently met with NIAMS leadership and staff to discuss approaches for repairing injured or degenerated entheses.
Another annual, mandatory, fiscal year requirement set forth by the NIH Risk Management Program requires all institutes, centers and OD offices to submit an annual risk inventory report by the last Friday in August to the OD Office of Management Assessment.
The Fellows Editorial Board (FEB) was created in spring 2002 to meet the scientific editorial demands of postdoctoral and clinical fellows in the NCI Center for Cancer Research. Now, FEB provides free, fast and confidential scientific document editing services for the entire NIH and FDA fellow community.
This summer and fall, 12 additional crosswalks will be upgraded around campus with 8 more planned for the future. Locations were determined with NIH community input, selecting places with high-volume vehicle traffic, high-volume pedestrian traffic or both.
Nearly 50 quilts were presented to the Children’s Inn at NIH on Dec. 15 as part of “100 Quilts for Kids,” an annual charity drive run by the Washington, D.C. Modern Quilt Guild.
NIDA and NIAAA directors Dr. Nora Volkow and Dr. George Koob, along with several other public health officials, participated in the recent launch of surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy’s new report on alcohol and drug misuse.