Belia “Bel” Ceja, 94, a special assistant to three NIH directors, died July 4 at a hospital in Washington, D.C. Ceja retired in September 1985 after more than 29 years of federal service.
Bonnie Ellis has been selected as the new executive officer of the Center for Scientific Review. Since July 2018, she has served on detail as acting executive officer at CSR.
Dr. Alison Cernich was sworn in as NICHD’s deputy director on Sept. 3 Since 2015, she has served as director of NICHD’s National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research.
Dr. Donald Lindberg, who served as director of the National Library of Medicine—the world’s largest biomedical library—for more than 30 years, died in Bethesda on Aug. 17. He was 85.
The winners of NIDA’s 2019 Addiction Science Awards, part of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), presented their projects to NIDA deputy director Dr. Wilson Compton and other NIDA scientists on Aug. 12.