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Celebrating NIH and Life-Saving Science During Rally for Medical Research
It was my pleasure to take part in a recent reception held on Capitol Hill to celebrate the lifesaving science that NIH supports. The well-attended evening reception was part of the Rally for Medical...
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Dedicating Roy Blunt Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
On September 19, I welcomed everyone to the dedication of the brand-new Roy Blunt Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias, which is located on the main NIH campus, Bethesda, MD. Seated...
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Time to Get Boosted
I got my COVID-19 bivalent vaccine booster last weekend. The Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent vaccine boosters should be now widely available in communities around the country. If...
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Making a Point
I enjoyed taking part recently in a one-hour panel discussion titled Defining Moments in Health: Leading Through Turbulent Times. The event brought together five leaders from the health-care sector to...
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Thank You, Dr. Fauci
It was an honor to take part last week in a special NIH program to bid Dr. Anthony Fauci farewell and wish him the very best as he prepares to step down this month as director of the National...
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Discussing Trust in Science
It was my pleasure to take part in Research! America’s 2023 Advocacy Awards event at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. on March 15. Each year, Research! America honors individuals...
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Welcome to Response Team Members
It was my pleasure to interact with several members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team during their recent visit to NIH. While on our Bethesda campus, team members met with select researchers...
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Updating an Rx for Progress
I was happy to be back in Atlanta this week to take part in the 12th annual Rx and Illicit Drug Summit. The three-day summit, the nation’s largest annual gathering to address the opioid epidemic,...
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Testifying During House Appropriations Hearing
It’s always an honor to represent NIH before members of Congress. On April 19, I did so before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Labor, Health and Human Services, Education subcommittee. I was...
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Meeting with White House Fellows
What a pleasure it was to hold a roundtable discussion with the 2022-2023 class of White House Fellows during their recent visit to NIH. They asked some very good questions. Afterwards, we gathered...
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Testifying Before Senate
On May 4, I testified on Capitol Hill regarding the President’s FY 2024 Funding Request and Budget Justification for NIH. My testimony was delivered before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor,...
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Groundbreaking at NIH Clinical Center
So glad to take part in the May 16 groundbreaking for the Surgery, Radiology and Laboratory Medicine (SRLM) wing of the NIH Clinical Center. The expansive new wing will house: the Department of...
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Plans for New Cancer Center in Kansas
It was a pleasure to be in Kansas City and join U. S. Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas to celebrate progress toward the construction of a new building for the University of Kansas Cancer Center. The...
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NIH Welcomes Visitors from OSTP
It was my pleasure to welcome Arati Prabhakar (2nd from right) during her visit to NIH on August 3. Dr. Prabhakar is director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and...
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NIH Welcomes Tribal Leaders for Annual Tribal Advisory Committee Meeting
Dr. Karina Walters, Ph.D., director of NIH’s Tribal Health Research Office and I were pleased to welcome Tribal leaders and representatives to the NIH campus on Aug. 16 and 17. These Tribal officials...
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Research!America’s National Health Research Forum
On Sept. 20, 2023, I attended Research!America’s National Health Research Forum held at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Here I am pictured with Mary Woolley (right), President and CEO...
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First Lady Dr. Jill Biden Visits NIH
It was an honor to welcome the First Lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden and Ms. Jodie Haydon of Australia to NIH last week. We shared NIH’s progress in pediatric cancer research during a visit...
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Senator Ben Cardin Visits NIH
I was pleased to welcome Senator Ben Cardin to NIH last week for a lab tour and an update on NIH’s progress in minority health research. To my left is Dr. Tara Schwetz, NIH Acting Principal Deputy...
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Visiting West Virginia University and Sharing Vision for Enhancing the...
NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli with Senator Shelley Moore Capito (left), and Dr. Ming Lei, Vice Dean of Research at the WVU School of Medicine (right), during a visit to West Virginia University...
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