When she’s not working with the NIH director’s speeches team, VaLorie Fogle is feeding her passion for cooking as a professional chef. For the past 25 years, Fogle—known in the cooking world as “Yaya the Chef”—nurtured her culinary skills and is now a highly regarded chef based in Elkton, Va.

Laura Stephenson Carter has retired as editor-in-chief of the NIH Catalyst, a publication about NIH’s Intramural Research Program (IRP).

​Dr. Sanford Dawsey, senior investigator in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB) retired in August after more than 35 years of service to the National Cancer Institute.

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., died June 28 at age 92. The former governor of Connecticut who had also served as a U.S. representative and senator was best known in the biomedical research community for championing scientific investigations into understanding HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s.

Neuroscientist Dr. Jeffrey S. Diamond was recently named scientific director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). A senior investigator in NINDS’s synaptic physiology section, he has served as the institute’s acting scientific director since August 2022.

The Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS) recently awarded a Neurosurgeon-Scientist Training Program grant to Dr. David Asuzu, a neurosurgery resident in the NIH Neurological Surgery Residency Training Program.

Dr. Anna Nápoles, NIH’s first Latina scientific director and only the second scientific director at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, retired early this year.

Mary Anne Bright, who served for decades in many roles at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), died on Apr. 16 at age 67.

The International Association for Dental Research recently awarded Distinguished Scientist Awards to three NIDCR scientists.

Two NIH scientists have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.