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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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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
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