NIH scientists Dr. Peter Basser and Dr. Carlos Zarate, Jr.  have been selected as 2024 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows.

Basser is senior investigator in the Section on Quantitative Imaging and Tissue Sciences at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He is known for the invention, development, and clinical implementation of MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), diffusion tensor “streamline tractography,” and other quantitative MRI methods for performing in vivo MRI histology or “microstructure imaging.”

NIH mourns the loss of Dr. Lucas Sant, 57, whose son Caesar has been a research participant at NIH. Lucas died from a severe case of pneumonia on Jan. 2.

Sant, who was a neuroscientist and behavior educator at Wake Forest University, had put his career on hold when his son Caesar began having serious strokes as a young child, an effect of sickle cell disease (SCD). He remained at his son’s side as Caesar relearned how to walk and talk, and he continued to devote himself full time to Caesar’s care over the past decade while tirelessly advocating to find him a cure.