Dr. Ming Lei left the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Division for Research Capacity Building in early August to become senior associate vice president for research and graduate education at West Virginia University (WVU) Health Sciences.

Dr. Laura Mamounas, a program director in the Neurogenetics Cluster of the Division of Neuroscience at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), retired from full-time work.

NIH's last glassblower, William “Bill” Dehn, passed away on Aug. 18 at age 86.

Scott McLean of CIT has retired after 27 years of service at NIH.

Board-certified internist, pediatrician and pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Andrew Bremer is the new director of NIH’s Office of Nutrition Research (ONR).

Former National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Director Dr. Claude Lenfant passed away on June 26 at age 94. He was the longest-serving NHLBI director, with a tenure from 1982 to 2003.

When she’s not working with the NIH director’s speeches team, VaLorie Fogle is feeding her passion for cooking as a professional chef. For the past 25 years, Fogle—known in the cooking world as “Yaya the Chef”—nurtured her culinary skills and is now a highly regarded chef based in Elkton, Va.

Laura Stephenson Carter has retired as editor-in-chief of the NIH Catalyst, a publication about NIH’s Intramural Research Program (IRP).

​Dr. Sanford Dawsey, senior investigator in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB) retired in August after more than 35 years of service to the National Cancer Institute.

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., died June 28 at age 92. The former governor of Connecticut who had also served as a U.S. representative and senator was best known in the biomedical research community for championing scientific investigations into understanding HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s.