From the Director

• From the Acting NIH Director—NIH Efforts to Improve Accessibility and Provide Reasonable Accommodations, July 29, 2009
• A Statement from the Acting NIH Director, Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D., Regarding the 2008 NIH-Supported Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Recipients, July 9, 2009
• Statement Deploring Terrorism Against Researchers, April 17, 2009
• From the NIH Acting Director: Summer opportunities available for students and teachers through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), March 27, 2009
• NIH and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), February 25, 2009
• Message from the Acting Director, Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D., February 5, 2009
• Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S., Named New Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, December 3, 2008
• A Statement from the Acting NIH Director, Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D. on The Role of Biomedical Research in the Economic Stimulus, November 13, 2008
• Statement regarding Paul G. Rogers, October 14, 2008
• Memorandum from the NIH Director: Departure Memo, September 24, 2008

• Memorandum from the NIH Director: NIH Tobacco-Free October 1, 2008
• The Public Access Policy of the National Institutes of Health, Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., September 11, 2008 – Slides used during the House of Representatives presentation: NIH's Public Access Policy (PDF - 2.3M)
• The NIH Reform Act of 2006: Progress, Challenges, and Next Steps; Statement of Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, September 9, 2008
• Statement on Recent Terrorism at University of California, Santa Cruz
• A Statement from the NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., on Change in Leadership for the National Human Genome Research Institute, May 28, 2008
• Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni receives the Légion d'honneur, April 10, 2008
• A Statement from the NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., on Encryption and Data Security, April 9, 2008
• A Statement from the NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Welcoming Comments on the Implementation of the Public Access Policy, March 26, 2008
• A Statement from the NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. on Dr. Schwartz's Departure, February 8, 2008
• Attacks on Researchers and Scientific Institutions, A Statement from the NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., February 8, 2008

• A Statement from the NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Regarding the 2006 NIH-Supported Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Recipients, November 1, 2007
• Signature of a Letter of Intent between the National Institutes of Health and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) for the "Research Career Transition Award" Program , October 22, 2007
• Statement by Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, NIH, regarding comments attributed to Dr. James Watson, October 19, 2007
• NIH Grantees Win 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Developing Techniques to Target Specific Genes in Mice, October 8, 2007
• Enhancing peer review: Inviting comments
• In Memoriam, Stephen E. Straus, M.D., First Director of NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Internationally Recognized Physician-Scientist, May 15, 2007
• Statement by Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, NIH, regarding Open Discourse (PDF - 54.3 KB), April 5, 2007
• Opening Statement, FY2008 Senate Budget Request (PDF - 1.93 MB), March 19, 2007
• Slides used during the Senate presentation: NIH: A Vision for the Future (PDF - 1.35 MB), March 6, 2007
• Opening Statement, FY2008 House Budget Request, March 6, 2007

• Slides used during the House presentation: NIH: A Vision for the Future (PDF - 1.98 MB), March 6, 2007
• The Promise of Personalized Medicine (PDF - 165 KB), NIH MedlinePlus Magazine, Winter 2007
• Summary of the FY2008 President's Budget (PDF - 231 KB) February 5, 2007
• NIH Leads Effort to Help Women in Science and Medicine Fulfill Potential January 29, 2007
• Statement regarding the "National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006," December 11, 2006
• The National Institutes of Health (NIH): Organization, Funding, and Congressional Issues (PDF - 205 KB)
• Research Funding: NIH in the Post-Doubling Era: Realities and Strategies
• Update on Conflict of Interest Issues: Ethics Survey Results, October 26, 2006
• Presentation to the Society for Neuroscience (PDF - 3.32 MB), October 17, 2006
• Public-Private Partnership Forms the Biomarkers Consortium to Advance the Science of Personalized Medicine (FNIH release), October 5, 2006

• Press Statement from NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.: NIH Grantee Wins 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Discovering How Genes Produce Proteins, October 4, 2006
• Press Statement from NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.: NIH Grantees Win 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Discovering Powerful Gene Silencer, October 2, 2006
• NIH Director's Statement Regarding House Passage of NIH Reform Act September 26, 2006
• Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., NIH Director, Endorses National Academy of Sciences Report: Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Dream of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, September 19, 2006
• A Vision for Transforming Medicine in the 21st Century (PDF - 184 KB),Tokyo, September 13, 2006
• NIH at the Crossroads: Strategies for the Future (PDF - 6.16 MB)
• Statement from Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, Director of the National Institutes of Health, on the Death of Dr. Lee Jong-wook, WHO Director-General, May 22, 2006