Join the HIMSS Life Sciences Roundtable at its next monthly meeting Wednesday, November 16, 11:00 am-12:00 pm EST for a discussion with Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, CMIO of Siemens Healthcare and a Principle Research Investigator at the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) on OMOPs efforts to help improve the monitoring of drugs for safety -- “Advancing the Science of Observational Data Analysis in Life Sciences.”  Please see the attached flier for additional information about this month’s Roundtable meeting and presentation and WebEx information. For Details >>

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the NIH Virology Interest Group announce the Thirteenth Annual Norman P. Salzman Memorial Award in Virology. This award has been established to recognize outstanding research accomplishments by a post-doctoral fellow or research trainee working in the field of virology at the NIH.

As part of the year long celebration marking our 25th anniversary, NINR is pleased to announce a Call for Poster Abstracts for a poster session to be held October 13, 2011 in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

NIH holds the patent for targeting Janus kinases and discovering novel immunosuppressive agents. It has now been 20 years since the discovery of the Jak/STAT pathway.  Industry scientists will be present to speak and present their most recent work; together this meeting will focus on the translational advances that have arisen with the basic discoveries of this important Jak/STAT pathway.

Over sixty laboratories at the NIH and FDA are involved in glycosciences research. The goal of this annual meeting is to highlight and disseminate information on the extensive amount of cutting edge research in the glycosciences so that collaborations can be built between laboratories.

Changing Practice, Changing Lives: NINR’s 25th Anniversary series of events is hosted by the National Institute on Nursing Research (NINR) and includes a series of components that include scientific symposia, conferences and regional key constituency group meetings.

On April 25-26, 2011, an organizational meeting took place in Moscow to prepare for The Forum planned for the fall of 2011.  This working meeting brought together U.S. and Russian government officials and researchers who discussed the development of the Forum Scientific Committee, determined working groups and assigned U.S. and Russian leads, determined and assigned tasks for Forum partners, and coordinated activities, budgets, and capabilities.

The Heart Truth's® Red Dress Collection 2011 is presented by Diet Coke with national sponsors Swarovski and partners Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and AOL.  The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is joined by The Foundation for the National Institutes of  Health to help spread The Heart Truth message through its support of the Red Dress Collection 2011 Fashion Show.

This conference is a three-day event that will provide a broad overview of genomics in public health research, practice and policy to highlight how the science might be used to prevent disease and promote health across the life span.  The event also will engage participants in considering how forecasted advances in genomic discovery may influence the future of public health.

mHealth holds the promise to deliver healthcare to underserved communities in the U.S. and the Developing World, and it offers the potential of squeezing greater efficiencies from strained or underfunded healthcare systems – or serving aging populations that want to maintain a quality of life.

The Cognitive Aging Summit brought together a range of experts in a variety of research fields to discuss the most cutting edge advances in our understanding of age-related brain and behavioral changes.

The NIH will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Office of Research on Women’s Health on September 27, 2010. This marks the historic founding of the very first office in the federal government to focus on the health of girls and women and to address issues of importance for women in biomedical careers.

The human microbiome may be key to health and disease, yet the exact relationship between the microbiome and the human is not clearly understood. Attend the Human Microbiome Research Conference to share insights and learn more about research this area. This conference is open to the entire scientific community interested in human microbiome and metagenomic research.

This day-long workshop, “Proteomics in Neuroscience”, sponsored by the Biomarkers Consortium Neuroscience Steering Committee, will provide a forum for industry, government, and academia to examine the biomarker development pathway, from discovery to validated assays, using mass spectrometry-based proteomic approaches. 

Roger Y. Tsien, Ph.D., winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008, delivered the fourth annual Sayer Vision Research Lecture, hosted by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health. His talk was titled: “Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors.”

The Stephen E. Straus, M.D. Portrait Unveiling and Reception was hosted by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to honor their Founding Director, Dr. Straus, and to unveil a portrait of him, which will now hang in the lobby of NCCAM as a tribute to his work. The reception took place on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 from 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Training the next generation of clinical and translational researchers is part of the NIH Clinical Center mission, and the CC and its Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education (OCRTME) did as much when they welcomed more than 260 fellows to the seventh annual Clinical Investigator Student Trainee (CIST) Forum, which took place on November 4-6, 2009 at the Clinical Center – National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Organized by the O’Neill family, Boo!Run for Life is an annual 10K race and 2 mile walk designed to raise awareness and funding for renal cell cancer research.  Funds raised through the event support the O’Neill Fund at the Foundation for NIH.

On August 4, 2009, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, the Lasker Foundation and Research!America recognized Senators Tom Harkin, Edward Kennedy and Arlen Specter for their leadership for research and for highlighting the importance of a shared commitment to making research for health a high national priority.

The Fogarty International Center's 40th anniversary gala brought together leaders from Congress, federal agencies, science, advocacy groups, the diplomatic corps and businesses with interest in global health issues. The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health hosted the Oct. 15 dinner at the Italian embassy in Washington, DC and honored Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., and Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., for their global health leadership in Congress.