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

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 the...

WHAG-TV (Hagerstown, Md.) visited Fort Detrick to highlight the 2015 Spring Research Festival (SRF), sponsored by the National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research (NICBR). Visit the WHAG-TV website to see the video broadcast, which aired May 6. The video was produced by WHAG Reporter Mallory Sofastaii. The video featured Linganore High School senior Rebecca Matthews, a Werner H. Kirsten student intern in the Human Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section, Vaccine Branch, NCI Center for Cancer Research; Lanessa Hill, public affairs specialist, U.S. Army Garrison; and Julianna Albowicz, special assistant to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). “There’s just so much great work that’s done...

Dan Bertolette has been selected as the most recent NCI at Frederick Champion of Safety, as part of the Champions of Safety Program sponsored by the Environment, Health, and Safety Program (EHS). The goal of the program, which began last year, is to raise awareness and promote a culture of safety by showing NCI at Frederick staff at work in their respective workplaces, according to Terri Bray, director, EHS. “Since we have so many varied work environments here, safety often takes on a different look, according to workplace. We want to take the opportunity to show real people in real situations, to encourage safety everywhere,” Bray said. Bertolette, a senior research assistant in the...

A new breed of lab animals, dubbed “glowing head mice,” may do a better job than conventional mice in predicting the success of experimental cancer drugs—while also helping to meet an urgent need for more realistic preclinical animal models. The mice were developed to tolerate often-used light-emitting molecules, such as luciferase from fireflies and green fluorescent protein (GFP) from jellyfish. These “optical reporters” are useful for monitoring the effect of experimental therapies in live animals over time because they emit an immediate and easily detected light signal showing whether a tumor inside the animal’s body is shrinking as desired. But there is a drawback: these...

Editor’s note: We asked Werner H. Kirsten Student Internship Program (WHK SIP) mentors to tell us about the unique and diverse backgrounds of some of this year’s student interns.Alex Beall Microarray Group, Genomics Laboratory, Cancer Research Technology ProgramMentors: Nicole Shrader and Stephanie Mellott, research associates What is your WHK student intern’s role in the laboratory?Alex’s role in our laboratory is primarily in our Microarray Group. He works on a variety of tasks/protocols for us, including, but not limited to, RNA/DNA quality control, sample normalization/dilution, and sample preparation for gene expression using the Affymetrix platform.  As time permits, he...