Dr. Allan Hildesheim, senior investigator and former chief of the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, retired from NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics after 33 years of service.

After 34 years of federal service—all with NIH—Dr. Maureen Gormley, deputy director for management, NINDS, officially retired.

Dr. Deborah Winn, senior advisor to the director of the Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP), and who served as acting director of the division from January 2019 to July 2020, is retiring at the end of January 2021.

NIGMS deputy director Dr. Judith H. Greenberg retired last October after 45 years of service to NIH.

Dr. Jennifer Loud, adult nurse practitioner and assistant chief in the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), retired in August after 27 years of service to the National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Tilda Farhat has been named director of the Office of Strategic Planning, Legislation and Scientific Policy at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Dr. Leonard Laster, a former NIH scientist ,died recently at age 92.

Dr. Neil Caporaso, an internationally recognized expert in genetic and environmental factors influencing lung cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and related familial hematologic disorders, retired from the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics in October.

Dr. Mary Kay Floeter, a senior clinician in the motor neuron disorders unit in the Neurogenetics Branch of NINDS’s Division of Intramural Research, retired Sept. 30 after 30 years of federal service—all with NINDS.

Joseph Scotto, retired biostatistician and epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute, passed away on Aug. 5 at the age of 81. In 1962, following graduation from Columbia University School of Public Health, he joined NCI’s Biostatistics Branch as a commissioned officer in the Public Health Service. He retired in 1992 after 30 years of service.