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NIDCD Highlights
New Director to Head NIDCD
Harold Varmus, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has appointed James F. Battey, M.D., Ph.D., as the new Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The NIDCD is the federal focal point of human communication research. The NIDCD conducts and supports research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. Dr. Battey has served as the Acting Director of the NIDCD since the retirement of the Institute's first director last year.
"Human communication research has at this moment more possibilities for productive exploration than at any other time in history. Standing on the solid foundation of the investigations conducted over the past decades and the exciting potential of new tools and new teams of scientists, we will continue to pursue the challenge of understanding normal and disordered processes of human communication. I am grateful for this appointment and look forward to working shoulder-to-shoulder with the scientific community, the public, and with the creative and dedicated NIDCD staff as we remain attentive to the needs of the 46 million Americans who are challenged by diseases and disorders of human communication," said Dr. Battey.
Dr. Battey has served the NIH since 1983, first on the staff of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), followed by an appointment as the chief of the Molecular Neuroscience Section in the Laboratory of Neurochemistry, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). He returned to the NCI in 1992 to head the Molecular Structure Section of the Laboratory of Biological Chemistry.
The Public Health Service has honored Dr. Battey with both its Public Health Service Commendation Medal in 1990 and the Public Health Service Outstanding Service Medal in 1994. Dr. Battey also serves as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He is author or co-author of over 120 research articles and is co-author with Leonard Davis and Michael Kuehl of Basic Methods in Molecular Biology, now in its second edition.
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