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Fourth Annual NIH Director's Pioneer Award Symposium
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September 22–23, 2008
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Symposium
You are invited to attend the fourth annual NIH Director's Pioneer Award Symposium on September 22-23, 2008. The event will feature a keynote address by NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni plus research talks by the 2007 Pioneer Award recipients ( http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer/Recipients07.aspx ), poster sessions by Pioneer and New Innovator Award recipients and members of their labs, roundtable discussions on highly innovative research, and announcement of the 2008 Pioneer awardees.
The NIH Director's Pioneer and New Innovator Award programs - key components of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research - support exceptionally creative scientists who take highly innovative, and potentially transformative, approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research.
The symposium, in the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) on the NIH campus, begins at 8:30 a.m. each day. An agenda is posted at http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer/symposium2008 .
Attendance is free and no registration is required. The event will also be videocast live and archived at NIH Videocasting .
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DIR Seminar Series
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Joe Gray, Ph.D.
Building 50
first floor conference room
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Genetics and the Shapes of Dogs
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Lecture
Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D.
The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lectures Series (WALS) comprises weekly scientific talks by some of the world's top researchers in the biomedical sciences. All lectures are held in the Jack Masur Auditorium in Building 10 on the NIH main campus from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted, and are open to the public.
Lectures are viewable live on the web and also on videotape at the NIH Library, Bldg. 10, approximately one week after the lecture date. The WALS is captioned for the web; you may request sign language or a monitor with the captions in Masur auditorium. Visit the ORS website or contact the Worksite and Enrichment Program Branch (WEPB) TTY at 301-435-1908.
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DIR Seminar Series
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Jonathon Pritchard, Ph.D.
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DIR Seminar Series
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Albert de la Chapelle, M.D., Ph.D.
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The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities
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December 16–18, 2008
Conference
NCMHD, with the support of its NIH Institute/Center partners, is convening the first NIH Research Summit on The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities to:
- Showcase the collective contribution of the NIH in the development of new knowledge in the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities
- Highlight the progress of the NIH minority health and health disparities research activities to improve prevention, diagnostic, and treatment methods
- Increase awareness and understanding of disparities in health
- Showcase best-practice models in research, capacity-building, outreach, and integrated strategies to find solutions to health disparities
- Provide an exciting forum for participants to learn and network with the nations multidisciplinary health disparities experts
- Identify gaps in health disparities research
Allow participants to make recommendations that will shape
the NIH health disparities strategic plan
- Establish a framework for ongoing dialogue and creation of innovative and unique partnerships to address disparities in health in all affected communities
Location: Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD
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DIR Seminar Series
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Geraldine Seydoux, Ph.D.
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DIR Seminar Series
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Robert Waterston, Ph.D.
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