NIH Research Festival Returns

The NIH Research Festival will be held Sept. 9-12, in Bldg. 10 in the Lipsett Amphitheater, the FAES terrace and classrooms, the NIH Library and the South Lobby. All are welcome.

Started in 1986 as “NIH Research Day,” the festival is an annual, multi-day event that highlights the scientific discoveries and advances made by scientists in NIH labs and clinics. The event provides an opportunity for NIH scientific staff, including trainees, not only to share their work with their peers at lecture and poster sessions, but also to get to know their “neighbors.” 

This year’s Research Festival will kick off with a short TED-style talk by Dr. Paule Joseph, an NIH senior investigator who studies how smell and taste are altered in conditions such as alcohol use disorder, obesity and viral infections. The opening day also includes lectures by independent research scholars and staff clinicians, four poster sessions and myriad scientific workshops and information tables. And the NIH Library will again host virtual reality demos.

The agenda on Wed., Sept. 10 includes a series of special lectures, including the Victoria A. Harden Lecture in NIH history to be delivered by John Burklow, senior vice president, Foundation for the NIH; the Anita B. Roberts Lecture by Dr. Kelly Ten Hagen, an NIH senior investigator who studies how sugar influences biological processes; the G. Burroughs Mider Lecture by Dr. Gisela Storz, an NIH distinguished investigator who researches small regulatory RNAs and proteins; and a special event with former NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni.

Thursday and Friday bring biomedical vendor exhibits and scientific workshops, sponsored by the NIH R&W.

See the full agenda at researchfestival.nih.gov.  Direct questions to Research Festival coordinator, Diana Gomez, at researchfest@mail.nih.gov.