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2012 Photos
Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, winner of a 2012 Lasker award for his pioneering efforts in organ transplantation, is congratulated by NIDDK Director Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers at the Lasker Awards ceremony on Sept. 21, 2012. Photo credit: Ellen Jaffe.
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Dr.
On June 12, 2012, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (center) and India’s Honorable Ghulam Nabi Azad, Minister of Health and Family Welfare (second from right), signed a joint statement on collaboration on diabetes research. They were witnessed by Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (left), Dr. V.M. Katoch, Secretary of India’s Department of Health Research and Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research (second from left), and the Honorable Krishna Tirath, India’s Minister of State for Women and Child Development (right). Photo credit: Chris Smith, HHS.
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2011 Photos
Three
former directors of NIDDK join current NIDDK Director Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers
(second from left) at the Institute’s 60th anniversary symposium, "Unlocking
the Secrets of Science: Building the Foundation for Future Advances," held
on Sept. 21 at the NIH Natcher Conference Center in Bethesda. At left, former
directors Dr. Lester B. Salans, now a professor at Mount Sinai Medical School
and director of Forest Laboratories; second from right, Dr. Phillip Gorden,
now an NIDDK intramural researcher and; at right, Dr. Allen M. Spiegel, dean
of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Dr.
Jeffrey Friedman, an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at
Rockefeller University and NIDDK grantee, presents on "The New Biology of Obesity"—including his Lasker Award-winning research on the hormone leptin—on Sept. 21 at
the NIDDK 60th anniversary symposium, held on the NIH’s Bethesda campus.
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Photo
of NIDDK Director Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P.
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Participants
of the 2011 Short-Term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons, or STEP-UP,
gather on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., for a research symposium on their
work. The program is part of NIDDK’s Office of Minority Health Research Coordination.
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