News and Events

2008

• Statement on Recent Terrorism at University of California, Santa Cruz 8/06/08
• NIH Director Announces Enhancements to Peer Review 6/06/08
• NIH Expands National Consortium Dedicated to Transforming Clinical and Translational Research 5/29/08
• Joram Piatigorsky Receives Helen Keller Award 5/06/08
• NIH Council of Councils Members Named 3/24/08
• NEI Grantee Receives $750,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Award 3/19/08
• New Therapeutic Target for Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy Discovered 3/17/08
• Glaucoma Clinical Drug Trial Design and Endpoints Symposium 3/13/08 - 3/14/08
• Call for Comments: Enhancing Peer Review at NIH 2/28/08
• Reporters and Editors: 2008 "Medicine in the Media" Course 1/25/08
• Muriel Kaiser-Kupfer, M.D., 1936-2008 1/10/08
• NEI Mourns Ruben Adler, M.D. 1/04/08

2007

• January is Glaucoma Awareness Month 12/21/07
• NAEC Member Joins NIH Council of Councils 11/23/07
• NIH Director's Pioneer and New Innovator Award Programs Launch 2008 Application Cycles 11/14/07
• NIH Public Trust Initiative Launches the "Partners in Research" Program 10/23/07
• NEI Director to Give NIH Medicine for the Public Lecture 10/03/07
• NEI Grantee Receives 2007 NIH Director's Pioneer Award 9/24/07
• NIH Expands National Consortium to Transform Clinical and Translational Research 9/19/07
• NIH Director Invests in Innovation, New Investigators 9/19/07
• NIH Launches Interdisciplinary Research Consortia 9/06/07
• Contact Lens Solution Recall 8/06/07
• NEI Grantee Named U.S. Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences 8/27/07
• NIH Council of Public Representatives seeks Applicants 8/21/07
• NEI Grantees Receive National Medals of Science 7/27/07
• New NIH Resource for Advancing Innovative Technologies Toward Commercialization 7/12/07
• Four Named to NEI Advisory Council 7/07
• NIH Awards Nearly $5 Million to Fund Knockout Mouse Repository 6/27/07
• NIH Awards Nearly $21 Million to Fund Cutting-Edge Research Equipment 6/07
• Sieving Receives Health Care Leadership Award 6/07
• NIH Establishes Working Groups to Examine Peer Review 6/07
• NIH Director Welcomes Seven New Members to the Advisory Committee to the Director 1/07
• Review to Host Open House Workshops to Improve the Review of NIH Grant Applications 1/07
• Reporters and Editors Invited to Apply for 2007 "Medicine in the Media" Course 1/07

2006

• Whitmer Appointed EO at NEI 12/06
• NIH Announces More Than 50 Awards in the Pathway to Independence Program 11/06
• NIH R01 Grant Applications Go Electronic 11/06
• NEI Director Paul Sieving, MD, PhD Elected to Institute of Medicine 10/06
• NIH To Build Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse 10/06
• NIH Completes Formation of National Network of Nanomedicine Centers 9/06
• NIH Director Announces 2006 Pioneer Award Recipients 9/06
• FDA--Contact Lenses and Eye Infections 8/23/06
• NEI Investigators Receive Post-Katrina Awards 7/3/06
• NIH Panel Urges More Informed Approach to Multivitamin/Mineral Use 5/17/06
• Genetic Finding Suggests Alternative Treatment Strategy for Common, Complex Skin Disorders and Asthma 4/06