Dr. Delia Olufokunbi Sam has been named chief of the population sciences and epidemiology integrated review group at the Center for Scientific Review.

NIGMS recently added three new program directors to its scientific staff: Dr. Kenneth Gibbs, Dr. Irina Krasnova and Dr. Amanda Melillo.

Five new members joined the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council.

In March, Dr. Amy Donahue retired from her dual roles as deputy director of the institute’s Division of Scientific Programs and coordinator of the Hearing and Balance/Vestibular Sciences Program.

Dr. Alexis Simpkins, a clinical vascular neurology fellow in the Stroke Branch of the NINDS Division of Intramural Research, recently won the first prize Progress and Innovation Award from the journal Stroke.

NIGMS recently filled two vacancies on its senior staff. Dr. Erica Brown is deputy director of the Division of Extramural Activities and Stephanie Older is new chief of the Office of Communications and Public Liaison.

The fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) acknowledged NIBIB director Dr. Roderic Pettigrew as a foreign fellow at a ceremony in New Delhi.

Dr. Yasmine Belkaid, chief of the mucosal immunology section in NIAID’s Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, was recently awarded the Emil von Behring Prize of Philipps-Universität in Marburg, Germany. The prize is presented biannually to commemorate Emil von Behring, who discovered the diphtheria antitoxin.

Dr. Carlos E. Caban, 75, passed away on May 1 from stage 4 prostate cancer. He began his NIH career as a research scientist, moved to the National Cancer Institute as a review administrator, became a program director for Cancer Control Research (now DCCPS) and served as a program policy officer in the Office of Extramural Research.

The Maryland State Department of Education recently honored the National Cancer Institute with a 2017 award of excellence in career and technology education during a ceremony in Baltimore.