If someone asked who our employee cheerleader is, the answer would be Pamela Jenkins. She passed away on Feb. 15.

Dr. Martha Linet, senior investigator in NCI’s Radiation Epidemiology Branch, recently received the Career Achievement Award from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Alexander Gorbach, an NIBIB staff scientist and chief of the infrared imaging and thermometry unit, an NIH Biomedical Engineering & Physical Science (BEPS) shared resource, died May 11 after a brief illness. He was 69.

After 38 years in the federal government, including 3 decades at NIH, Barbara McGarey is laying down the law.

For more than two decades, Dr. Jim Battey Jr. has been a pillar of support and leadership for the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Dr. Nicolas Wentzensen, senior investigator and deputy chief, Clinical Genetics Branch, NCI, recently received the Distinguished Scientific Award from the ASCCP.

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.