Maxine Richardson, NCI EEO director from 1980 to 1996, died on Oct. 19, in Raleigh, N.C., where she had moved in May. She was 85 years old.

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.

Dr. Miriam Kelty, former associate director at the National Institute on Aging and founder of the NIH Bioethics Interest Group, died June 6.

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.

​Dr. Alex Politis, chief of the infectious diseases and microbiology integrated review group (IRG) at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), retired in June. He served as IRG chief for 19 of his 23 years at NIH. Politis likened parts of the job as chief to his days of coaching basketball, baseball and soccer teams.

With September marking his official retirement after nearly 50 years at NIH, Dr. William Knowler leaves behind an extraordinary legacy. Since 1979, he has served as chief of NIDDK’s diabetes epidemiology and clinical research section in the Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch.