Environmental Factor Newsletter, September 2016

Chris Long named NIEHS Executive Officer

On Aug. 7, Chris Long was named NIEHS associate director for management, also known as the executive officer.

Tenure means commitment to the future for two NIEHS scientists

Two NIEHS researchers, Guang Hu, Ph.D., and Scott Williams, Ph.D., were awarded tenure Aug. 1 by the National Institutes of Health.

Langer awarded prestigious PRAT fellowship

NIEHS trainee Lee Langer won a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PRAT) Program fellowship to further his studies in stem cell biology.

NIEHS trainees repeat excellent performance in FARE competition

NIEHS was again among the top performers in the annual Fellows Award for Research Excellence competition, with 18 winners.

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Six promising Superfund trainees receive K.C. Donnelly awards

Six promising Superfund Research Program trainees received K.C. Donnelly Externship Award Supplements to study at other institutions.

Calendar

Sep
07

Keystone Science Lecture Series presents “The Placenta: A Battleground of Viruses, Plastics, and Hormones?”
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Location: Building 101, Rodbell AB
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Jennifer Adibi, Sc.D., University of Pittsburgh

Sep
07

NIEHS Predictive Toxicology and Disease Faculty seminar, “CRISPR-Cas Systems, From Adaptive Immunity to the Genome Editing Revolution”
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Location: Rodbell BC
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Rodolphe Barrangou, Ph.D., North Carolina State University

Sep
08

Alternative Approaches for Acute Inhalation Toxicity to Address Global Regulatory and Non-regulatory Data Requirements Webinar Series — “21st Century Testing Approaches”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Speaker(s): Dongeun (Dan) Huh, Ph.D., from the University of Pennsylvania, and Kelly BeruBe, Ph.D., from Cardiff University
Webinar registration

Sep
13

National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council meeting
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Agenda and additional information

Sep
16

Office of the Director Seminar on “Primary Care Public Health Integration — Large Scale Data Aggregation and Discovery of Unexpected Patterns”
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Location: Rodbell AB
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Speaker(s): James Lloyd Michener, M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

Sep
18-20

25 Years of Endocrine Disruption Research: Past Lessons and Future Directions
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Location: National Institutes of Health Masur Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland
More information and registration

Sep
19-23

NIEHS Fellows Appreciation Week — various activities
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Location: Building 101

Sep
21-22

NIEHS Obesity Grantee Meeting
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Location: National Institutes of Health Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland
Agenda

Sep
27

Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Agenda and registration to attend in person or via webcast

Sep
30

Triangle Global Health Annual Conference
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Location: Friday Center, Chapel Hill
Speaker(s): Keynote by Raj Panjabi, M.D., from Harvard Medical School and co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health. Other speakers — Congressman David Price and Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., NIEHS and National Toxicology Program director.
http://triangleglobalhealth.org/

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