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‘Impact’ on Health, Economy in Focus
Director’s Advisory Committee Emphasizes Telling NIH’s Story |
| By Carla Garnett |
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At the recent ACD meeting, NIH principal deputy director Dr. Larry Tabak (l) and NIH director Dr. Francis Collins enjoy a light moment. |
NIH is good for science and good for the economy. If those words were lyrics, everyone connected in any way to NIH ought to be singing them loudly and at every opportunity. That was the message at the 104th meeting of the advisory committee to the NIH director (ACD) on June 14. NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, cast throughout the meeting by several presenters as an agile lead singer, indicated in opening remarks that the timing is perfect for such an NIH chorus.
“We’re seeing a gratifying acceleration in terms of scientific progress on many fronts,” including 15 papers published in 1 week on the Human Microbiome Project, he noted, opening the meeting.
“It’s truly a testament to the creativity, hard work, energy and the effective individual and team efforts of our remarkable biomedical research workforce…It is an absolute pleasure and privilege to be able to stand at the helm of this organization—the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world—and see how those resources are being put to remarkable use.”
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Columnist Friedman Offers Prescription for Pre-eminence |
| By Rich McManus |
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman thinks the United States is in danger of growing weak on the international stage and offered a prescription for a return to pre-eminence at the J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture on May 24.
The Bethesda resident, doing what he called “a neighborhood concert” at NIH, has just published a book with his neighbor and fellow “foreign policy geek” Michael Mandelbaum that formed the substance of his talk: That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back.
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