Dr. Rina Das has been named director of the Division of Integrative Biological and Behavioral Sciences (IBBS) at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
I plan to retire end of 2021 and while it is something that I dearly look forward to, it is a bittersweet feeling. It is difficult to leave the NIH family behind, mine for close to 35 years. I joined in June 1987 as a CRADA fellow with a pharmaceutical company.
Walter “Walt” Friauf, former chief of the electrical and electronic engineering section of the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program (BEIP), died Oct. 5, at age 93.
NIH distinguished investigator Dr. Thomas A. Waldmann, chief emeritus of the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch in the Center for Cancer Research at NCI, died on Sept. 25.
Dr. William (Bill) T. Riley, NIH associate director for behavioral and social sciences research and director of the Office of BSSR for the past 7 years, will retire from NIH at the end of December 2021.
Dr. Barney Graham retired after more than 20 years as an investigator at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center (VRC), where he served as VRC deputy director and chief of the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory.
Visual information specialist Jill George retired in October and will be sorely missed, not only for her talent but also for her friendliness, kindness and patience.
The American Neurological Association (ANA) recently honored NINDS director Dr. Walter Koroshetz and clinical director Dr. Avindra Nath for their outstanding accomplishments in academic neurology and neuroscience.