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The NIH Library and the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) are pleased to present The NIH Big Read. This is an exciting new program featuring a series of book discussions about a single book to be held at NIH over several months, culminating in a special final event featuring the author of the book. The inaugural NIH Big Read book will be The Gene: An Intimate History by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies.

Join the FAES bookstore for an author meet & greet with Valorie Burton, award-winning author of "Why Not You?". This book and many of her other best-selling publications are available for purchase at the FAES Bookstore.

Location: FAES Terrace, Bldg. 10

 

Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series at the NIH Presents:

Immunotherapy of Cancer. - James Gulley, MD, PhD (NCI) and James Yang, MD (NCI).

 

Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series at the NIH Presents:

Schizophrenia: From Childhood to Genomes. - Judy Rapoport, MD (NIMH) and Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD (NIMH).

 

Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series at the NIH Presents:

Current Infectious Disease Challenges. - Anthony S. Fauci, MD (NIAID).

 

The Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in biology and their applications to major human diseases.  The lectures include presentations of patients, pathology, diagnosis, and therapy in the context of major diseases and current research.  All clinicians, trainees including fellows, medical students, Ph.D. students, and other healthcare and research professionals are welcome to attend.

Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series at the NIH Presents:

Addison's Disease meets Chromatin Biology. - Lynnette Nieman, MD (NICHD) and Daniel Larson, PhD (NCI).

This lecture will also be available live and archived online on NIH Videocast at https://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp

Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series at the NIH Presents:

Bioengineering: Bridging Brain, Computer, and Neurologic Disease. - Jonathan Wolpaw, MD (National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies).

 

Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series at the NIH Presents:

Alzheimer: What, When and How. - Mark Mattson, PhD (NIA) and Dimitrios Kapogiannis, MD (NIA).

 

Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series at the NIH Presents:

Sight-threatening Uveitis: a 2-way Street between Research and Clinic. - Rachel Caspi, PhD (NEI) and Hatice Nida Sen, MD, MHS (NEI).