National Advisory Eye Council Meeting - February 2021
The National Advisory Eye Council (NAEC) advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services; the Director, National Institutes of Health; and the Director, National Eye Institute on all policies and activities relating to the conduct and support of vision research, research training, and other programs of the Institute. The National Advisory Eye Council (NAEC) comprises 12 external members from the vision community who are charged by law to help guide institute activities. NEI gathers input from members and the public during meetings held three times per year. Council has purview to review all NEI matters, including policy...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 7, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

National Advisory Council on Aging - January 2021
The National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) advises the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and the Director of the National Institute on Aging on its mission. The Council meets three times a year to consider applications for research and training grants.For more information go tohttps://www.nia.nih.gov/about/nacaAir date: 1/13/2021 10:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Advisory Committee to the Director - December 2020 (Day 2)
The Advisory Committee to the Director provides advice on matters pertinent to National Institutes of Health mission responsibilities in the conduct and support of biomedical research, medical science, and biomedical communications.Air date: 12/11/2020 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 24, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Advisory Committee to the Director - December 2020 (Day 1)
The Advisory Committee to the Director provides advice on matters pertinent to National Institutes of Health mission responsibilities in the conduct and support of biomedical research, medical science, and biomedical communications.Air date: 12/10/2020 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 24, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

OHSRP Education Series: The NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy: applicability to IRP investigators; components; and required protocol and consent content
The next OHSRP Education Series session will be held on Tuesday, December 1st from 3-4 PM via live NIH videocast at https://videocast.nih.gov/ and will be archived During this session, Kathleen Calzone, PhD, RN, AGN-BC, FAAN, will present The NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy: applicability to the IRP; components; and required protocol and consent content. Dr. Calzone is a Research Geneticist in the Genetics Branch of the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute. She is also the National Institutes of Health Genomic Data Sharing Policy Genomic Program Administrator for the NCI Center for Cancer Research. O...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 17, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Stephen E. Straus Lecture - All Health Is Not Created Equal: Where You Live Matters
Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture Maybe the saying shouldn ’ t be “ you are what you eat, ” but rather “ you are where you eat. ” Social and economic factors, such as where someone lives, have powerful influences on people ’ s health. This association holds true not only for access to healthy food but also for other things such as housing conditions and green space availability. Such factors impact risk of exposure and susceptibility to many diseases and conditions, including COVID-19. In her presentation, Dr. Shannon Zenk will explore the science behind social determinants of health and demonstrate how v...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Down Syndrome Research: The Intersection of Basic Science and Clinical Cohort Development (Day 2)
This virtual workshop will be sponsored by the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, in conjunction with the trans-NIH INCLUDE (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE) Project Working Group. The workshop will focus on two components of the INCLUDE project: Component 1: Conduct targeted, high-risk, high-reward basic science studies on chromosome 21.Component 2: Assemble a large study population of individuals with Down syndrome across the lifespan. Tune in to hear researchers, data scientists, self-advocates, and other members of the Down syndrome research c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Down Syndrome Research: The Intersection of Basic Science and Clinical Cohort Development (Day 1)
This virtual workshop will be sponsored by the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, in conjunction with the trans-NIH INCLUDE (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE) Project Working Group. The workshop will focus on two components of the INCLUDE project: Component 1: Conduct targeted, high-risk, high-reward basic science studies on chromosome 21.Component 2: Assemble a large study population of individuals with Down syndrome across the lifespan. Tune in to hear researchers, data scientists, self-advocates, and other members of the Down syndrome research c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers
As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians ’ few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. Though only a small percentage of applicants were accepted, the elite program launched an unprecedented number of remarkable scientific careers that would revolutionize medicine at the end of the twentieth century. Medal Winners recounts this overlooked chapter and unforeseen byproduct of the V...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 21, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Gaucher Disease: How a Rare Disease Provides a Window into Common Neurodegenerative Disorders
WALS Astute Clinician Lecture The speaker, Dr. Ellen Sidransky, is the Branch Chief of the Medical Genetics Branch and is a pediatrician and geneticist in the National Human Genome Research Institute at National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her research interests include both clinical and basic aspects of Gaucher disease and Parkinson disease, studies of genotype/phenotype correlation and genetic modifiers, insights from mouse models, and novel treatment strategies. She played a lead role in establishing the association between glucocerebrosidase and parkinsonism. The author of over 200 publications, she continues to focus ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 20, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

22nd Annual Norman P. Salzman Memorial Awards and Symposium in Basic and Clinical Virology
The Dr. Norman P. Salzman Memorial Fund was established in 1999 to present the annual Norman P. Salzman Memorial Symposium and Awards in Basic and Clinical Virology to outstanding postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and postbaccalaureate trainees working in intramural laboratories at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Fort Detrick Laboratories, LEIDOS, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) or Uniformed Services University of the Health Services (USUHS). The Symposium and Awards are hosted by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), the NIH Viro...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Norman P. Salzman Memorial Awards and Symposium in Basic and Clinical Virology 2020
The Dr. Norman P. Salzman Memorial Fund was established in 1999 to present the annual Norman P. Salzman Memorial Symposium and Awards in Basic and Clinical Virology to outstanding postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and postbaccalaureate trainees working in intramural laboratories at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Fort Detrick Laboratories, LEIDOS, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) or Uniformed Services University of the Health Services (USUHS). The Symposium and Awards are hosted by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), the NIH Viro...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 14, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Ethical & Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research Session 7: COVID
The Department of Bioethics offers this seven week course annually each fall. The course is designed to provide an overview of the important issues in the ethics of human subject research for clinical investigators and others who participate in the conduct of research and is open to the entire NIH community as well as to those from outside NIH. Topics include the history of human subject research ethics, principles and guidelines, study design, subject recruitment, informed consent, and international research. The course is open to the entire NIH community as well as to those from outside NIH. The recommended textbook is E...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 14, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Ethical & Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research Session 6: International Research
The Department of Bioethics offers this seven week course annually each fall. The course is designed to provide an overview of the important issues in the ethics of human subject research for clinical investigators and others who participate in the conduct of research and is open to the entire NIH community as well as to those from outside NIH. Topics include the history of human subject research ethics, principles and guidelines, study design, subject recruitment, informed consent, and international research. The course is open to the entire NIH community as well as to those from outside NIH. The recommended textbook is E...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 14, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Ethical & Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research Session 5: IRBs/Trial Design
The Department of Bioethics offers this seven week course annually each fall. The course is designed to provide an overview of the important issues in the ethics of human subject research for clinical investigators and others who participate in the conduct of research and is open to the entire NIH community as well as to those from outside NIH. Topics include the history of human subject research ethics, principles and guidelines, study design, subject recruitment, informed consent, and international research. The course is open to the entire NIH community as well as to those from outside NIH. The recommended textbook is E...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 14, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video