Summer Lecture Series Provokes Young Minds

Speed Limits Passé
'Roadmap' Tour, Stem Cell Update Highlight ACD Meeting

By Rich McManus

It might not be quite as detailed, yet, as the Rand McNally version, but the "NIH Roadmap" — an elucidation of the need for speed in making discoveries and applying them to patient care — was unveiled at length at the 86th advisory committee to the NIH director meeting June 30 on campus. NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni introduced the initiative then let three institute directors carve turns around its major features: new pathways for discovery, the shape of future research teams and revitalized clinical research.
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'They Said It Couldn't Be Done, But He Done It'
MIT's Langer Offers 'Blue Sky' View of Biomaterials' Potential

By Rich McManus

Dr. Robert Langer As if to offset the leaden feel of a notoriously soggy spring in Bethesda, MIT's Dr. Robert Langer, a prolific inventor as well as professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, opened some blue skies June 16 as he discussed advances in drug-delivery systems and in tissue engineering — including new organs, blood vessels and such body parts as ears and noses — at NIDCR's annual Seymour J. Kreshover Lecture in Masur Auditorium.