Dr. Kenneth A. Jacobson, chief of NIDDK’s Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, received the American Chemical Society’s Bristol-Myers Squibb Smissman Award during its 253rd national meeting in San Francisco recently.

Dr. Eric Engels has been appointed chief of NCI’s Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch. He is an international leader in research on cancer among immunosuppressed individuals, including persons with HIV and transplant recipients, and on the epidemiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

NICHD director Dr. Diana Bianchi accepted the March of Dimes Colonel Harland Sanders Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics clinical genomics meeting.

Dr. Alan Willard, NINDS acting deputy director, officially retired on Mar. 31 after 20 years of federal service—almost all with NINDS.

Leaders are valued at NIH and NIH has supported leadership development by offering programs such as the NIH Executive Leadership Program (ExLP). Recently, 20 leaders representing 15 institutes and centers graduated from the 7-month program.

Dr. Huber Warner, a biochemist who led the National Institute on Aging’s Biology of Aging Program, died on Sept. 12 in St. Paul, Minn. He was 83.

NIH principal deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak was one of seven “honorary graduands” recognized at King’s College London’s honorary degree ceremony.

Dr. Kristin Kramer has been named director of the Center for Scientific Review’s newly established Office of Communications and Outreach.

Family, friends and colleagues packed the room Oct. 3 to celebrate the career and leadership of Dr. Linda Birnbaum as she retired after 40 years as a federal scientist, including 10 years as director of NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program (NTP).

Germany’s Else Kroner-Fresenius Foundation awarded the 2017 Fresenius Research Prize to Stanford University professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Dr. Karl Deisseroth.