Dr. Stephanie L. Constant is new chief of the Office of Scientific Review, NIGMS. Constant joins NIGMS from NHLBI, where she served as a scientific review officer.

Karen Chandler’s first step toward her 30-year career at NIGMS came on her last day of a family vacation. She decided to take the civil service test at NIH...Within a month of the exam, she was seated in the NIGMS Budget Office.

Dr. Alfred Johnson has been named NIH deputy director for management. He had been serving as acting DDM since May 2016.

Dr. Mushtaq Khan lives by the creed “Live to Give.” It guided him through 38 years of federal service, including 27 at NIH supporting the review process with a focus on digestive disease research.

Dr. David Fargo, NIEHS’s first scientific information officer (SIO), will direct development of the infrastructure needed for scientific big data.

Linda Brown, 73, who worked for the Medical Arts Branch for over 48 years and was an integral part of the branch’s creative process and culture, died Oct. 25 after battling cancer for 3 years.

Dr. Sarah Hollingsworth Lisanby has joined NIMH as director of the Division of Translational Research (DTR).

Dr. Ericka Boone is the new director of the Division of Loan Repayment in the NIH Office of Extramural Research.

Dr. Carol Pontzer, program director in the Division of Extramural Research at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, died July 15 after a battle with brain cancer.

Gerald “Jerry” Victor Hecht, a public affairs specialist for the former Audiovisual Branch in the NIH Office of the Director and a photographer who captured many signal moments in NIH history, died Nov. 24 of complications from Parkinson’s disease.