December 7, 2004
Vol. LVI, No. 25
Hood Discusses Systems Biology On Dec. 15 in Masur Auditorium
Four-Legged Clinical Center Volunteers Cheer Patients
NINDS's McKay Wins Schering Prize
NHLBI's Young To Give Mider Lecture
NLM Exhibit on War
and Trauma
CC Offers Clinical Research Certificate
Early Diagnosis of
Pituitary Tumors
Urged at Symposium
Jazz Brunch, Costume Party Spur CFC Giving
News Briefs
Awardees
Obituaries
Study Subjects Sought
U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
NIH Record Archives
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Still Excelling Past 40
NIH'ers Set World Weightlifting Records at Major Meet
By Rich McManus
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| George Prue (l) and Michael Bradley show off the hardware they won by lifting world-record weights at a recent meet. |
By the time most people turn 40, thoughts of being a world record holder in anything have usually long since dimmed. But that's not true for two men at NIH. George Prue, 58, and Michael Bradley, 46, both set world records in their age groups at the 2004 Amateur Athletic Union world bench press, dead lift and push/pull championships held Oct. 29-31 in Richmond, Va. They needed most of their strength simply to haul home the hardware — gold medals and tall trophies.
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Schwartz Named NIEHS and NTP Director
Dr. David A. Schwartz | |
Dr. David A. Schwartz has been named new director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program. He will assume leadership of NIEHS and NTP in April 2005.
He is currently serving at Duke University as director of the pulmonary, allergy and critical care division and vice chair of research in the department of medicine. At Duke, Schwartz played a principal role in developing three NIEHS-funded research centers in environmental health sciences, environmental genomics and environmental asthma.
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