NIEHS Spotlight

Children’s health highlighted at D.C. events

Children’s environmental health research was the focus of the annual meeting of children’s centers and a congressional staff briefing.

Rogan receives prestigious children’s environmental health award

Walter Rogan, M.D., recently retired from NIEHS, received the 2015 Child Advocate award from the Children’s Environmental Health Network.

Three NIEHS Scholars Connect students win travel awards

Three Scholars Connect participants won travel funding to attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Seattle.

Generation Public Health takes over Chicago meeting

Creating the healthiest nation in one generation was a key theme of the American Public Health Association meeting in Chicago.

NIEHS Science Days celebrate excellent trainees and mentors

The NIEHS Science Days event Nov. 5-6 recognized the trainee and mentor of the year, as well as best trainee poster and talk.

Summit addresses safe drinking water from private wells

NIEHS staff and grantees joined the Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative summit on North Carolina private well water quality.

NIH honors nine NIEHS scientists at Director’s Awards ceremony

The National Institutes of Health conferred its highest honors on nine outstanding NIEHS employees at its annual Director’s Awards ceremony.

Innovative research and collaboration at SRP Annual Meeting

Participants, guided by the theme, Collaboration for Innovation, pursued collaborations across disciplines and with new SRP partners.

Duke symposium addresses toxicity of energy production

NIEHS scientists and grantees took part in the Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program symposium, “The Toxicity of Power.”

NTP highlights new technologies to protect health and environment

At the FutureToxIII meeting, National Toxicology Program scientists and others assessed how new technologies apply to chemical safety testing.

Inside the Institute

NIEHS staff cleans up local highway

NIEHS employees celebrated American Recycles Day Nov. 4 by picking up trash from Hopson Road where it borders institute campus.

Calendar of Upcoming Events

Dec 02, Building 101, Room D250, 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. — Amanda MacLeod, M.D., from Duke University School of Medicine, speaking on “Mechanisms of UV-induced Immunosuppression in the Skin,” hosted by Jennifer Martinez, Ph.D.
Dec 02–04 (Off-site event), Bethesda, Maryland — Tribal Ecological Knowledge Workshop and training sessions.
Dec 02, Rodbell Auditorium 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors meeting, register to attend in person or via webcast
Dec 03, (webinar), 11:00 a.m.–noon — In Vitro to In Vivo Extrapolation for High Throughput Prioritization and Decision Making, register to attend
Dec 04, Rodbell Auditorium 9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. — Joaquin Espinosa, Ph.D., from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, speaking on "Taming the p53 Network for Effective Cancer Therapies," hosted by Thuy-Ai Nguyen, Ph.D., and Mike Resnick, Ph.D.
Dec 07, Rodbell C 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. — Data Science Seminar Series presents Praveen Sethupathy, from University of North Carolina School of Medicine, discussing “Discoveries From Functional Genomics: Non-coding RNAs as Mechanistic Links Between Environment and Human Physiology”
Dec 09, (webinar), 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. — NIEHS-EPA Children's Environmental Health Research Centers Webinar on Food and Children's Health, featuring Asa Bradman, Ph.D., from the University of California, Berkeley; Anne Hoen, Ph.D., from Dartmouth College; Karen Peterson, D.Sc., from the University of Michigan; and discussion leader Laura Anderko, Ph.D., R.N., from Georgetown University, register.
Dec 14, (webinar), 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. — NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health presents “Meet the Editors,” featuring editors in chief Sally Darney, Ph.D., of Environmental Health Perspectives; Craig Slatin, Sc.D., of New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy; and John Allegrante, Ph.D., of Health Education and Behavior, registration is required
Dec 17, Rodbell Auditorium 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — National Toxicology Program Peer Review of the Draft RoC Monograph on Selected Viruses, register to attend in person or via webcast