NIEHS Spotlight

Virtual forum on near-roadway air pollution highlights health effects

NIEHS helped broaden public understanding of the impacts of air pollution from roadways, in a July 10 virtual forum.

NIEHS opens doors for area teachers

Nine North Carolina teachers spent two weeks immersed in the NIEHS Science, Teachers, and Research Summer Institute (STaRS) program.

Groundbreaking EPA testing plan builds on NTP work to replace animal use

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed replacing certain animal tests with methods developed in part by NTP scientists.

NIEHS fellows stand out in 2016 FARE competition

This summer, 16 NIEHS trainees were winners of the National Institutes of Health Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE).

Environmental health community mourns loss of Paul Lioy

Environmental health scientists mourn the loss of Paul Lioy, M.D., a champion of exposure science, who passed away July 8.

Tibbetts Award recognizes NIEHS grantee innovation in rodent control

SenesTech received a Small Business Administration’s Tibbetts Award for its safe, innovative approach to reducing rodent populations.

Evaluating worker training from the mid-management perspective

A new study gives worker health and safety training high marks and takes a rare look at how midlevel managers value NIEHS-funded programs.

Wilson’s mentoring award celebrated

NIEHS staff celebrated lead researcher Samuel Wilson, M.D., who won the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Mentoring Award from NIH.

A scientist gives back — Rahman on women’s environmental health

Qamar Rahman, Ph.D., discussed the challenges Indian women face in the workplace, and her motiviations to help improve women’s health.

Help document NIEHS history

In preparation for its 50th anniversary next year, the institute requests nominations of notable accomplishments and the people behind them.

NIEHS small business innovation shines at biotech convention

NIEHS grantees, including Microvi Biotech Inc., were selected to exhibit in a special innovation zone at the BIO International Convention.

NIH seeks planning input

NIH has issued a Request for Information as it seeks feedback on a new strategic plan framework.

Inside the Institute

Colleen Anna honored in NIEHS memorial garden

Colleagues remembered the life and work of Colleen Anna by placing two trees and a plaque in her honor in the NIEHS memorial garden.

HHS celebrates LGBT Pride Month

Government and community group representatives joined in “Supporting and Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families,” in Washington, D.C.

Calendar of Upcoming Events

Aug 04, webinar 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — NIEHS Exposure Science and the Exposome Webinar Series with Santosh Kumar, Ph.D., from the University of Memphis, discussing "Incorporating Mobile Exposure in Mobile Health Precision Medicine," register(https://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/events/pastmtg/2015/exposure/) to attend
Aug 04, in the Building 101 Executive Conference Room noon–1:00 p.m. — Receptor Mechanisms Discussion Group seminar with Brian Strahl, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, speaking on “Chromatin Mechanisms That Underlie Transcription and DNA Methylation Control”
Aug 07, in Building 101, F193 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. — Signal Transduction Laboratory Special Seminar featuring Carlo Riccardi, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Perugia School of Medicine, Italy, presenting “Anti-inflammatory Action of Glucocorticoids: Role of GILZ”
Aug 10, in Keystone 2164 9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. — NICEATM Skin Sensitization Modeling Seminar on “Probabilistic Hazard Assessment for Skin Sensitization Potency by Dose–Response Modeling Using Feature Elimination Instead of Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationships,” by Thomas Luechtefeld from Johns Hopkins University
Aug 10–11 (Off-site event), at the New York University Kimmel Center for University Life, New York City 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — “ASPR/CDC/NIEHS Hurricane Sandy Conference: Translating Research Into Practice,” register to attend
Aug 12, webinar 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m — EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers 2015 Webinar Series highlighting brain health, with Brenda Eskenazi, Ph.D., from the University of California, Berkeley; Susan Murphy, Ph.D., from Duke University; Heather Volk, Ph.D., from the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; moderated by I. Leslie Rubin, M.D., from Emory University, register to attend
Aug 19, in Keystone 1003 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. — Data Science Seminar Series with David Reif, Ph.D., from the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Bioinformatics Research Center and the NCSU Center for Human Health and the Environment
Aug 25, in Rodbell Auditorium 9:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. — NIEHS presents “Halifax Project: Low Dose Theory Symposium,” register to attend in person or via webcast.

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Clinical Feature

Gibbons calls for reimagining clinical research

Gary Gibbons, M.D., director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, outlined his vision for the future of precision medicine in a July 20 talk.