NIH’ers Receive Presidential Rank Award
Four NIH’ers received the 2023 Presidential Rank Award, the highest honor the federal government can bestow upon a career civilian employee.
NINDS Remembers Scientist Emeritus Gainer
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.
RML Mourns Loss of Prion Disease Researcher Race
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.
Former NIDDK Program Director Badman Remembered
Dr. David Badman, retired hematology grants program director at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, passed away on Oct. 12 at his home in rural Maryland. He had been in hospice care for a short while due to pancreatic cancer.
NCI’s McMaster Retires
Dr. Mary Lou McMaster, senior clinical specialist in the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and captain in the Public Health Service, retired in December.
NINDS’s Theodore Installed as Epilepsy Society President
Dr. William H. Theodore, senior investigator and chief of the childhood epilepsy section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, recently began his term as president of the American Epilepsy Society (AES).
Former NIH’er Faucette, Pioneer Medical Research Participant, Is Mourned
A former NIH histology technician, Lawrence Faucette, who had terminal heart disease and received the world’s second genetically modified pig heart transplant, died Oct. 30.
NIA’s Kohanski Retires
Dr. Ronald Kohanski, director of the National Institute on Aging’s Division of Aging Biology (DAB), has retired after 18 years of service at the institute.
Schwetz Named NIH Deputy Director for Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives
Dr. Tara Schwetz has been appointed as NIH deputy director for program coordination, planning and strategic initiatives and director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) in the Office of the Director.