A Paradox and Alan Rein: Distinguished Retrovirologist Retires from the HIV DRP

A team of NCI and Leidos Biomedical Research employees at NCI at Frederick received the Energy and Fleet Management Award, one of the 2014 Department of Health and Human Services Green Champions Awards, for comparing the costs and energy usage of two -80°C freezer technologies. This was the first scientific study to be jointly conducted by Leidos Biomedical Research’s Applied and Developmental Research Directorate and Facilities Maintenance and Engineering Directorate.

The Scientific Library staff is pleased to announce the return of the annual Student Science Jeopardy Tournament July 22, in the auditorium of Building 549. The contest will begin at 10 a.m. and will run continuously until its conclusion at approximately 12:45 p.m. A video of the tournament will be broadcast live at the Advanced Technology Research Facility.

Platinum Publications are selected from articles by NCI at Frederick scientists published in 42 prestigious science journals. This list represents articles published during the time period shown above, as generated from PubMed. Articles designated as Platinum Highlights are noteworthy articles selected by Dr. Craig Reynolds, associate director, National Cancer Institute, from among the most recently published Platinum Publications. The Scientific Library maintains the NCI at Frederick-in-Print database, a collection of citations for journal articles authored by NCI at Frederick employees since 1997.  denotes Platinum Highlight article. Click on the image to go to...

Beginning the week of July 6, the Scientific Library will present its annual Summer Video Series, featuring the acclaimed Ken Burns documentary series “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.” Narrated by the late Edward Herrmann, actor, director, writer, and comedian, the six-part series describes the history of cancer and cancer treatments, particularly in the United States. The series is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Scientific Library has copies of the book in print, audio, and Kindle formats. The Summer Video Series will be available at two locations: Building 549 and the Advanced...

The NCI Technology Transfer Center (TTC) is undergoing a reorganization that will bring patenting and licensing responsibilities to the Shady Grove and Frederick offices by October 2015. The reorganization is a result of an effort begun in 2014 by NIH to improve the organizational structure of technology transfer at NIH to meet the rapid rate of change within science, technology, and industry, and to better align the science and laboratory goals with the licensing and patenting process. The new structure will decentralize patenting and licensing functions currently at the NIH Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) into nine NIH institutes, including NCI. “Decentralizing patenting and...