January 12, 2018

ACD Gets Updates on Opioid, ‘Next Gen’ Initiatives
By Carla Garnett
Slowing the nation’s opioid abuse/overdose epidemic and reconfiguring grant funding to reward more early-career investigators topped the agenda of the 115th meeting of the advisory committee to the NIH director (ACD) on Dec. 14-15.

New NCI Director Shares Vision at Town Hall Meeting
By Rich McManus
Recruited from directorship of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NCI's new director, Dr. Ned Sharpless, talks about the institute's current efforts, future direction.
NCCIH Director Briggs Leaves For Journal Post
By Ellen O’Donnell
NCCIH director Dr. Josie Briggs’s talents in thinking through tough problems, taking on the most “gnarly” and fearsome projects and ensuring that things get done have made her a lighthouse in the community. In October, she retired.
Microglia Are the Eye’s Electrician
By BY KATHRYN DEMOTT
For more than a century, scientists have wondered how cells in our eyes called microglia might play a role in neurodegenerative diseases in the brain and the retina.

Doctors at the Clinical Center prepare to begin interventional radiology on a patient.

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At the Clinical Center, interventional radiology, a minimally invasive medical specialty, provides image-guided diagnosis and treatment of diseases in every organ system.

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January 12, 2018

Vol. LXX, No. 21

January 12, 2018

Vol. LXX, No. 21

January 12, 2018

ACD Gets Updates on Opioid, ‘Next Gen’ Initiatives

New NCI Director Shares Vision at Town Hall Meeting

NCCIH Director Briggs Leaves For Journal Post

Microglia Are the Eye’s Electrician

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