NIH Record - National Institutes of Health

NHGRI’s Kastner Named Federal Employee of the Year

Dr. Daniel Kastner, scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, was named the Federal Employee of the Year as part of the 2018 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals program, known as the “Sammies.”

Alumnus Vesell Mourned

Dr. Elliot Vesell, who served as a clinical associate at what was then the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases from 1963 to 1965, and who was head of the section on pharmacogenetics at the National Heart Institute from 1965 to 1968, died on July 23.

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