Rob Eiss, 69, a long-time member of the Fogarty International Center team, passed away at his home in Silver Spring, Md., in late October.

Dr. Ying Ma, staff scientist in the Molecular Tracer and Imaging Core Facility at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), passed away on Nov. 20. His career at NIH spanned three decades on the Bethesda campus.

Dr. Gabriel Fosu retired in December after more than 17 years at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR).

Four NIH teams won HHS Data Excellence Awards at the ceremony held Dec. 5 at department headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Four NIH’ers received the 2023 Presidential Rank Award, the highest honor the federal government can bestow upon a career civilian employee.

Dr. Harold “Hal” Gainer, scientist emeritus at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and an esteemed and longstanding leader in the NIH Intramural Research Program, died in November.

Dr. Richard “Rick” Race, a retired research veterinarian who studied infectious neurodegenerative diseases for more than 30 years at NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Mont., died of metastatic pancreatic cancer on Nov. 13.

Dr. David Badman, retired hematology grants program director at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, passed away on Oct. 12 at his home in rural Maryland. He had been in hospice care for a short while due to pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Mary Lou McMaster, senior clinical specialist in the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and captain in the Public Health Service, retired in December.

Dr. William H. Theodore, senior investigator and chief of the childhood epilepsy section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, recently began his term as president of the American Epilepsy Society (AES).