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Photos from the NIH Office of the Director (OD)
2011
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mheath Winter Institute
Working together in small groups, researchers at the NIH mHealth Winter Training Institute learned how to develop their wireless and mobile research interests. Participants in the photo (from left to right): Marcos Reyes Estrada, Kirby Lee, Hee Yun Lee, Lin Wang, Dara Sorkin, Marisa Hilliard, Flaura Winston and Miryam Gerdine.
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NIH Directors Transformative Research Award Artwork
This original artwork was produced to represent the NIH Directors Transformative Research Award. The TRA was created specifically to support exceptionally innovative and/or unconventional research projects that have the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms.
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The Common Fund’s Extracellular RNA Communication program
RNA, once thought to exist only within cells, is now known to be exported from cells and play a role in newly discovered mechanisms of cell-to-cell communication. The Common Fund's Extracellular RNA Communication program aims to discover fundamental biological principles of extracellular RNA (exRNA), and explore the possibility of using exRNAs as disease biomarkers or therapeutic molecules.
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NIH and World AIDS Day
On November 8, 2011, Francis Collins and NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci visited outside the NIH Clinical Center with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who spoke at NIH's Masur Auditorium in advance of World Aids Day.
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NIH Research Festival
NIH Environmental Management System’s sustainable laboratory practices working group members Minoo Shaloury-Elizeh, of NIDDK, and Dr. Jean Tiong-Koehler, of NINDS, share information on the Labs Go Greener effort with NIAID's Ningna Huang at the 25th anniversary NIH Research Festival, held October 24-28, 2010.
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Lasker Scholars Symposium
A March 31 symposium launched the NIH-Lasker Clinical Research Scholars Program, an intramural-extramural partnership which supports a small number of exceptional early career clinical researchers and promotes their development to fully independent research positions. At the kickoff symposium for the collaboration were (from l) Lasker Foundation Chair Emeritus James Fordyce, Dr. Charles Sawyers, Dr. Christine Seidman, Dr. Maria Freire, Dr. Daniel Kastner, Dr. Harold Varmus, Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. Michael Gottesman, Dr. Marston Linehan and Lasker Foundation chair Dr. Alfred Sommer.
2010
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Early Independence Awards
The NIH Common Fund, part of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) awarded its first NIH Director’s Early Independence Award to 10 exceptional junior investigators.
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USA Science & Engineering Festival
Dr. Francis Collins talks with students from Duke University at the first USA Science & Engineering Festival, held October 23-24, 2010 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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USA Science & Engineering Festival
Dr. Francis Collins performs at the USA Science & Engineering Festival.
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ORWH 20th Anniversary Symposium
First Office of Women's Research and Health director Vivian W. Pinn speaks at ORWH's 20th Anniversary Symposium, held September 27, 2010. Past accomplishments were discussed, as well as a preview of the next decade, "A Vision for the Year 2020."
