The NIH Almanac
Recent Photos from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
2011 Photos
Three
former directors of NIDDK join current NIDDK Director Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers
(second from left) at the Institute’s 60th anniversary symposium, "Unlocking
the Secrets of Science: Building the Foundation for Future Advances," held
on Sept. 21 at the NIH Natcher Conference Center in Bethesda. At left, former
directors Dr. Lester B. Salans, now a professor at Mount Sinai Medical School
and director of Forest Laboratories; second from right, Dr. Phillip Gorden,
now an NIDDK intramural researcher and; at right, Dr. Allen M. Spiegel, dean
of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Dr.
Jeffrey Friedman, an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at
Rockefeller University and NIDDK grantee, presents on "The New Biology of Obesity"—including his Lasker Award-winning research on the hormone leptin—on Sept. 21 at
the NIDDK 60th anniversary symposium, held on the NIH’s Bethesda campus.
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Photo
of NIDDK Director Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P.
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Participants
of the 2011 Short-Term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons, or STEP-UP,
gather on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., for a research symposium on their
work. The program is part of NIDDK’s Office of Minority Health Research Coordination.
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