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.

Rhea Moore Frazier, program assistant in the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education (OCRTME), passed away on May 30 at the age of 69.

Linda Frances Anderson, 67, formerly a member of the communications staff at the National Cancer Institute, died on June 11 at her home in Lake Charles, La., following a lengthy illness

Dr. Mitchell Machiela was recently appointed Earl Stadtman tenure-track investigator in NCI’s Laboratory of Genetic Susceptibility. He studies the role of germline variation and somatic mosaicism in cancer risk.

NIDA and NIAAA directors Drs. Nora Volkow and George Koob present the first jointly sponsored NIDA-NIAAA Lifetime Science Award to Dr. A. Thomas McLellan at the Joint National Advisory Council for the Collaborative Research on Addiction.

NIAID’s Dr. Yasmine Belkaid is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.