| News Advisory
Author Lee Woodruff, Nobel Laureate
Richard Axel to Speak at NIDCD’s 20th Anniversary |
| What: |
Author Lee Woodruff and 2004 Nobel Prize
winner Richard Axel will be among the presenters at the 20th
anniversary symposium of the National Institute on Deafness
and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National
Institutes of Health. Ms. Woodruff will share her family’s
story about the life-altering changes they experienced when
her husband, ABC news anchor and reporter Bob Woodruff, suffered
a traumatic brain injury after his vehicle was struck by
a roadside bomb in Iraq. Dr. Axel will join a slate of stellar
scientists as he discusses his research on the science of
smell. To see the full agenda, go to www.nidcd.nih.gov/about/20th_symposium_schedule.htm. |
| When: |
Thursday, Oct. 23, 8 a.m. – 4:00
p.m. |
| Where: |
Natcher Conference Center 45 Center
Drive National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda, Maryland |
| Media availability: |
Ms. Woodruff will be available for interviews
briefly following her presentation. Other speakers will be
available throughout the day. |
NIDCD, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2008, supports and conducts research
and research training on the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance,
smell, taste, voice, speech and language and provides health information, based
upon scientific discovery, to the public. For more information about NIDCD
programs, see the Web site at www.nidcd.nih.gov.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The Nation's
Medical Research Agency — includes 27 Institutes and
Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting
and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research,
and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both
common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and
its programs, visit www.nih.gov |
