NIDA Notes Editor David Anderson has retired after 20 years at the helm of NIDA’s signature science publication.

Dr. Ross Shonat has been named director of the Center for Scientific Review’s Division of Physiological and Pathological Sciences.

After more than 3½ decades, NIH Landscape Architect Lynn Mueller retired Dec. 31, 2 months shy of 37 years of service here.

Dr. Savvas Makrides, a scientific review officer at the Center for Scientific Review, died peacefully at his cousin’s home in Newton, Mass., on Mar. 2.

NIDA's Dr. Amy Newman has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the seventh Philip S. Portoghese Medicinal Chemistry Lectureship.

It may seem that Dr. Daniel McDonald followed a linear path from graduate work to Johns Hopkins to serving in the Center for Scientific Review as a scientific review officer, a position from which he retired in July after 30 years.

Dr. Martha Linet, senior investigator and former chief of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB) in NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), retired in January after 33 years of service.

Dr. David A. Cooney, a retired public health officer who had a 34-year career at NIH (1964-1998), died Oct. 8, 2016, from prostate cancer. He was 78 and lived in Bethesda.

Bettie Jean Hessie, 78, who retired from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in 1999 after 34 years as a medical writer and consultant, passed away peacefully on Dec. 21, 2016.

NIDA’s Dr. Rao Rapaka received the 2016 Distinguished Service Award at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual meeting and exposition held recently in Denver.