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Meet Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Dr. Walter J. Koroshetz has been fascinated by the brain and how it works from a young age. This curiosity,...
Meet the Director, Neurological disorders
Meet the Director: Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
For 75 years, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has studied many different diseases and conditions that are distinct...
Meet the Director, Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Diseases
Meet the Director: Helene M. Langevin, M.D., National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Helene M. Langevin, M.D., was destined for a career in medicine. Not only did she grow up around doctors,...
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Ask an Expert: Marishka K. Brown, Ph.D., Director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research
Sleep is second nature. But for biomedical research, sleep is a relatively new field of study. Marishka K. Brown, Ph...
Sleep, Healthy Sleep
Meet the Director: Debara L. Tucci, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Debara L. Tucci, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., is excited by opportunities to encourage and support research that...
Meet the Director, Hearing Disorders and Deafness
Meet the Director: Shannon N. Zenk, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., FAAN, National Institute of Nursing Research
Nursing is the largest health care workforce in the United States. As Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research ...
Meet the Director, Health Disparities
Meet the Director: Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., served in the medical and research communities for decades before becoming the second Director of...
Meet the Director, Health Disparities
Meet the Director: George F. Koob, Ph.D., National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Even after decades of research in the field, George F. Koob, Ph.D., is still learning new things about alcohol,...
Meet the Director, Alcohol Use Disorder
Dr. Shuai Xie is building a bridge between engineering and public health
As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Shuai Xie, Ph.D., M...
Environmental Health
Meet the Director: Lindsey A. Criswell, M.D., M.P.H., D.Sc., National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Despite major progress, much is still unknown about the nature of disease. Lindsey A. Criswell, M.D., M.P.H.,...
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Meet the Director: Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
How does an expert on blood diseases become the head of a “diabetes institute”? That’s a question Griffin P. Rodgers,...
Meet the Director, Diabetes
Meet Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), served the American...
Meet the Director, HIV, Immunization, Infectious Diseases
Meet the Director: Richard J. Hodes, M.D., National Institute on Aging
Richard J. Hodes, M.D., an influential scientist in the field of immunology, has dedicated his career to the science...
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Meet the Director: Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D., National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D., has been the Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) since...
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Meet the Director: Dr. Michael Chiang, National Eye Institute
National Eye Institute (NEI) Director Michael F. Chiang, M.D., started his position during a strange time: In November 2020, protests...
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Meet the Director: Dr. Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Nora Volkow, M.D., has been the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) since May 2003. NIDA supports...
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Preventing childhood obesity: Program for first-time parents promotes healthy growth in firstborn babies and their siblings
An NIH-funded study called Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories (INSIGHT), has been shown to support healthy weight...
Child Development, Nutrition
Meet the Director: Dr. Jon Lorsch, Ph.D., National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Jon R. Lorsch, PhD, has been the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) since August 2013. In...
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New treatments possible for a rare childhood cancer
Thanks to new research, children with the rare childhood cancer rhabdomyosarcoma, or RMS, may be able to receive more targeted...
Cancer in Children
The youngest patients, the toughest battles
The survival rate for children diagnosed with cancer has risen from just 10% in the 1950s to nearly 85% today. That's...
Cancer in Children