Dr. Hugh Auchincloss has agreed to serve as acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

NIH mourns the passing of Bruce Hatch Lee, a Maryland real estate developer who became a patient advocate for rare kidney cancer. Lee died after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Sudhir Srivastava received the 2022 Don Listwin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cancer Early Detection. Srivastava is senior scientific officer and chief of the Cancer Biomarkers Research Branch in the Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Dr. Mark Hallett, chief of the Medical Neurology Branch (MNB) at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), retired after 40 years of federal service, 38 with NINDS.

Alex Salah, a much sought-after electrician across the Washington, D.C. area, and a longtime asset at NIH, recently retired after 42 years of federal service.

Harriet Greenwald, 87, a longtime contributor to efforts to preserve and document NIH history, died Nov. 9 in New London, Conn., where she had relocated in 2016.

Paul Shinn, a foundational member of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and its Division of Preclinical Innovation (DPI), died on Nov. 17, following a traffic accident.

As she prepares to retire from 34 years in public service—33 of those years at NIH, including as executive officer at three different institutes—Joellen Austin said the experience has been greater than her childhood self could have imagined.

Two NIH’ers received the 2022 Presidential Rank Award, the highest honor the federal government can bestow upon a career civilian employee.

After 20 years of federal service, Dr. Carmen Brewer, chief research audiologist in the audiology unit at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), retired on Oct. 27.