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Third Annual Philip S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D. Distinguished Lecture on Innovation and Technology Transfer

The Office of the Director, NIH, invites you to the third annual Philip S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D. Distinguished Lecture on Innovation and Technology Transfer on Thursday, September 18, 2008, at 11:00 AM in the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10, NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Robert S. Balaban will present “Innovation in the Imaging Sciences at the National Institutes of Health.” Dr. Balaban is the Director, Division of Intramural Research and Chief of the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics in the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. Please join us for this lecture from a leading NIH inventor in the imaging sciences in this series that honors Dr. Phil Chen’s many contributions to the NIH.

For more information, please contact Craig Woodside at 301-496-0472 or woodsidec@od.nih.gov. For sign interpretation or accommodation for disabilities, please contact Dolores Evans at 301-594-7700 or evansdo@od.nih.gov.

    


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