June 16, 2017

Dr. Mark Schiffman’s Robert S. Gordon Jr. Lecture might well have served as a primer on the meaning of an NIH career. It was heartfelt, impassioned, honest, funny, encouraging and offered good news about preventing cervical cancer via vaccination.

The heat didn’t deter NIH’s bicycle commuters from passing through three NIH-affiliated “pit stops" for this year’s Bike to Work Day.

If all goes according to plan, Hakan Bardakci will be in Russia this November, competing for a martial arts championship. The 33-year-old, a project officer with the Office of Research Facilities, competed in his first-ever national sambo championship outside of Philadelphia.