Dr. Joan McGowan, director of the NIAMS Division of Musculoskeletal Diseases, has retired.

Dr. Pamela McInnes, deputy director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, retired May 31 after 29 years of federal service.

​Dr. Elena Smirnova is new chief of the Center for Scientific Review’s genes, genomes and genetics (GGG) integrated review group.

The cancer research and NIH communities are mourning the loss of long-time NCI senior leader Dr. Alan Rabson, who passed away July 4 at the age of 92.

The Center for Scientific Review has named Dr. Yuanna Cheng as chief of its surgical sciences, biomedical imaging and bioengineering (SBIB) integrated review group.

Dr. Vera Marie Nikodem passed away on May 17 at Sibley Memorial Hospital at the age of 78, after a brief battle with acute myeloid leukemia.

Nurse scientist Dr. Wendy A. Henderson co-invented a new patent-pending methodology to test stool rapidly at the point-of-need for infectious pathogens.

The scientific community recently honored the career of Dr. David Schlessinger, an investigator renowned for his achievements in the field of genetics, but even more so as a beloved mentor and colleague.

NIDA deputy director Dr. Wilson Compton recently received the James W. West M.D. Quality Improvement award at the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers awards ceremony in Denver.

When Sandi Franklin first joined the Center for Scientific Review (then Division of Research Grants) as a messenger in 1988, paper-based communication ruled. The amount of paper-based mail, including grant applications and intra-NIH correspondence, was voluminous.