Dr. Robert Finkelstein, director of the Division of Extramural Activities at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), has retired after a federal career spanning more than two decades.

Dr. Barry Graubard, senior investigator in the Biostatistics Branch (BB) of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), retired earlier this year.

Dr. Judith H. Levin, a long-time NIH researcher who joined the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 1962 and then the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) from 1973 until her retirement in 2014, passed away on Dec. 8.

Rob Eiss, 69, a long-time member of the Fogarty International Center team, passed away at his home in Silver Spring, Md., in late October.

Dr. Ying Ma, staff scientist in the Molecular Tracer and Imaging Core Facility at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), passed away on Nov. 20. His career at NIH spanned three decades on the Bethesda campus.

Dr. Gabriel Fosu retired in December after more than 17 years at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR).

Four NIH teams won HHS Data Excellence Awards at the ceremony held Dec. 5 at department headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Four NIH’ers received the 2023 Presidential Rank Award, the highest honor the federal government can bestow upon a career civilian employee.

Dr. Harold “Hal” Gainer, scientist emeritus at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and an esteemed and longstanding leader in the NIH Intramural Research Program, died in November.

Dr. Richard “Rick” Race, a retired research veterinarian who studied infectious neurodegenerative diseases for more than 30 years at NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Mont., died of metastatic pancreatic cancer on Nov. 13.