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Media Coverage
2024
December
FASEB Announces First Cohort of MOSAIC Scholars
December 2, 2024 •
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
November
NIH All About Grants Podcast: Fellowships and What’s Changing
November 21, 2024 •
NIH Extramural Nexus
Fishing for biochemistry’s ‘dark matter’
November 4, 2024 •
MSU Today
Brain-on-a-chip tech powers neuroscience research
November 4, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
October
NIH Grantees Win Nobel Prizes
October 25, 2024 •
NIH Record
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to three scientists for work on proteins
October 9, 2024 •
The Washington Post
Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins, life’s building blocks
October 9, 2024 •
AP News
Giving back to the community and advancing science go hand in hand
October 8, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
First MARC students reaping benefits of mentoring, impactful research
October 8, 2024 •
East Carolina University News Services
Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine awarded for discovery of microRNA
October 7, 2024 •
The Washington Post
Discovery in Tiny Worm Leads to Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2 Scientists
October 7, 2024 •
The New York Times
Rachel Brewster’s lab advances understanding of how organisms adapt to oxygen deprivation—with an eye toward new medical treatments
October 7, 2024 •
UMBC Magazine
September
STEM branches out at CWC
September 28, 2024 •
The Riverton Ranger
'Don't be afraid to take a different path'
September 11, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
August
Clarkson STEM Ed programs reach 250+ K-12 students in Summer 2024
August 8, 2024 •
Clarkson University News
July
Can a tiny fish help us cure cancer?
July 24, 2024 •
Van Andel Institute
June
MOSAIC scholar navigates a nontraditional path
June 5, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
May
Feinberg Names 2024 Mentors of the Year
May 31, 2024 •
Northwestern Medicine News Center
A Bright Future Lies Ahead In The Next Generation Of LGBTQ+ Healthcare Providers
May 30, 2024 •
Lavender Media, Inc.
MSTP student explores medical research frontiers in Uganda
May 24, 2024 •
Indiana University MD Student News
This MOSAIC scholar’s journey brought her home to share science
May 23, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
Mount Sinai Hosts PREP Regional Symposium, Bringing Together Scholars to Share Research and Celebrate Accomplishments
May 16, 2024 •
Mount Sinai Today
This MOSAIC scholar believes in the power of perseverance
May 16, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
From Pandemic to Purpose: Hampton University Grad Shane Taylor’s Ascent to Immunology Inspired by COVID-19
May 14, 2024 •
Hampton University News
MOSAIC scholar explores enzymes
May 8, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
Bakers and mentors help a MOSAIC scholar change her life
May 2, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
Swapping stethoscope for pipette to understand diabetic retinopathy
May 1, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
April
Notebook scribbles to synthesis pathways
April 25, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
A Day in the Life of Juliana Feng
April 3, 2024 •
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Diné college launches CONVOY program to support Native American students in STEM education
April 2, 2024 •
Navajo-Hopi Observer
March
Guest essay: Why the National Institutes of Health is important to W.Va.
March 28, 2024 •
The Dominion Post
Pitt-Bradford alumnus to talk about journey to become Ivy League researcher
March 26, 2024 •
The Bradford Era
NIGMS Director Shares Basic Science Breakthroughs with Lifelong Learners
March 15, 2024 •
NIH Record
Gaillard Relishes Her Role Supporting Science
March 15, 2024 •
NIH Record
February
A series of happy accidents guided this MOSAIC scholar
February 23, 2024 •
ASBMB Today
A Full-Circle STEM Event
February 12, 2024 •
PCMA Convene
We’re social beings. So are microbes.
February 12, 2024 •
The Harvard Gazette
January
Inspiring, Training, and Supporting the Next Generation of Researchers
January 25, 2024 •
NIMH Director's Messages
2023
December
A shift from parasites to immune cells
December 11, 2023 •
ASBMB Today
2023 Inspiring Graduate | Daisy Belmares-Ortega
December 11, 2023 •
UNM Newsroom
November
The implosion of the large laboratory business model - An interview with NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch
November 22, 2023 •
ASBMB Today
Bioengineer is a MOSAIC scholar
November 20, 2023 •
ASBMB Today
October
MARC program at Ohio State seeks to empower nascent researchers
October 23, 2023 •
Ohio State News
September
Investing in future generations of veterinary professionals
September 8, 2023 •
DVM 360
August
ASM Receives NIH Grant to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical Research
August 7, 2023 •
American Society For Microbiology News
July
Mizzou Grad Student Aspires to Inspire the Underrepresented in STEM
July 16, 2023 •
Diverse Education
June
STEM camp helps grow Native American students' curiosity
June 28, 2023 •
Nebraska Public Media
Mosquito research underway at Mayville State University
June 21, 2023 •
Grand Forks Herald
May
New safety videos focus on representing everyone who enters the lab
May 18, 2023 •
VCU News
High School Students Learn the Basics of Base Editing to Cure “GFP-itis”
May 4, 2023 •
UC San Diego Today
VUMC to coordinate national effort to reduce ARDS, pneumonia, sepsis
May 4, 2023 •
VUMC Reporter
Training Budding Biomedical Researchers Continues Via Renewed $21.3 Million NIH Grant
May 3, 2023 • University of Hawai'i, John A. Burns School of Medicine News
March
Researchers find new molecule that shows promise in slowing SARS-CoV-2
March 28, 2023 • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory News
NIH grants extend programs at Brown focused on student diversity, success in Ph.D. science programs
March 14, 2023 • Brown University News
February
UNITE Shares Insights from First Progress Report
February 17, 2023 •
NIH Record
Investigating the Brain-Gut Connection
February 15, 2023 • Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine News
Medical Student Meagan Chriswell Balances Research and Community Service
February 8, 2023 • University of Colorado School of Medicine News
MOSAIC changes the landscape
February 2, 2023 •
ASBMB Today
January
NIGMS: Highlights from 2022 and what to expect next
January 23, 2023 •
ASBMB Today
Kid-edited journal pushes scientists for clear writing on complex topics
January 7, 2023 •
The Washington Post
2022
December
Breaking barriers: From first generation to inspiration
December 20, 2022 •
ASBMB Today
Developing High School Students into Data Scientists
December 19, 2022 •
UConn Today
Human Genetic Cell Repository Celebrates 50 Years
December 9, 2022 •
NIH Record
November
Making their MARC: Jonathan Taasan
November 28, 2022 •
Nevada Today
How gradeschoolers learn science, tech, engineering and math from wriggly worms
November 17, 2022 •
Los Angeles Daily Times
Lorsch Highlights Workforce Development Programs for White House Workshop
November 11, 2022 •
NIH Record
New Training Grant Matches Computation and Modeling to Experimental Design
November 1, 2022 •
University of Virginia Engineering News
October
Science ‘on their fingertips’: Texas professor making chemistry available to blind students
October 25, 2022 •
Texas Standard
Nobel Prize for 3 chemists who made molecules ‘click’
October 5, 2022 •
AP News
Nobel Prize awarded to three scientists for work in click chemistry, which links molecules quickly
October 5, 2022 •
Washington Post
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work ‘Snapping Molecules Together’
October 5, 2022 •
The New York Times
7 Ways to Support a Kid Who Wants to Care For Animals
October 1, 2022 •
Popular Science
September
NIGMS Launches STEM Teaching Resource
September 16, 2022 •
NIH Record
Inspiring Agents of Change [PDF]
Fall 2022 • University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing
August
Collaborations Inspired Early-Career NIH Grant that Could Lead to Treatment Breakthroughs for a Range of Medical Conditions
August 17, 2022 • University of Virginia School of Engineering
PVAMU receives prestigious NIH/NIGMS U-RISE award to prepare more students for careers in biomedical sciences
August 16, 2022 • Prairie View A&M University
A UVA Post-Doc Wants to Teach the Immune System How to Regenerate Tissue
August 16, 2022 • University of Virginia School of Engineering
July
Students Become Scientists Through SIUE’s STEM Center Programs
July 28, 2022 • Southern Illinois University Edwardsville News
Meet Dr. Jon Lorsch: Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
July 25, 2022 •
NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
Research opportunities for underrepresented students
July 7, 2022 •
WSU Insider
June
Bridges to the Doctorate program continues to prepare students for Ph.D. programs
June 23, 2022 • Towson University News
New WVU program trains next generation of toxicologists to collect, analyze air samples from mining, fracking sites
June 21, 2022 • WVU University News
M.D.-Ph.D. programs have increased diversity — but there’s still work to do
June 7, 2022 •
Yale News
May
Class Appeal
May 2022 •
The Physiologist Magazine
NIGMS Receives Certificate of Excellence in Citizen-Centric Reporting
May 27, 2022 •
NIH Record
UK Receives Renewed $11.4 Million Grant to Further Cancer Research
May 25, 2022 • University of Kentucky Research News
The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Powered by Datavant and Regenstrief Wins 2022 FedHealthIT Innovation Award
May 24, 2022 • Yahoo! Finance
$1.25 million NIH grant links science, literacy and math education in middle schools
May 4, 2022 • Bioengineer.org
Making untreatable vision problems treatable: WVU receives $11M for visual sciences research center
May 2, 2022 •
WVUToday
April
COVID-19 Testing Hits the Road in West Virginia
April 25, 2022 • NIH COVID-19 Research Website
2022 cohort of NIH MOSAIC scholars
April 19, 2022 • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
March
A World of Science in a Box
March 24, 2022 • Dartmouth College
February
From pipettes to policy: Reflections on a decade working to expand opportunity and equity in science
February 19, 2022 • Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Yale Postdoc Chrystal Starbird Maximizes Her Opportunity With NIH Career Award
February 14, 2022 • Yale University
2021
November
Zuk Named NIGMS Deputy Director
November 12, 2021 •
NIH Record
Zuk named deputy director; Coorssen is co-editor-in-chief
November 1, 2021 •
ASBMB Today
October
Brown Researchers, Local Partners Aim to Reduce Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination, Testing
October 22, 2021 •
Brown University
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Duo Who Made a Tool to Build Molecules in an Environmentally-friendly Way
October 6, 2021 •
Washington Post
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Scientists for Tool That Builds Better Catalysts
October 6, 2021 •
New York Times
Nobel in Chemistry Honors ‘Greener’ Way to Build Molecules
October 6, 2021 •
Associated Press
June
News Feature: Keeping Black students in STEM
June 8, 2021 •
PNAS
February
Harvard's Brown Rethinks General Anesthesia
February 5, 2021 •
NIH Record
January
Long-Time NIGMS Leader Greenberg Retires
January 8, 2021 •
NIH Record
2020
October
Kahoot! Academy and Scholastic Launch Games to Engage Learners Worldwide in Science and Health Education
October 20, 2020 •
Kahoot! Academy
Discoveries in Basic Science: A Perfectly Imperfect Process
October 2020 •
NIH News in Health
September
Promoting Diversity and Advancing Racial Equity in the Biomedical Sciences
September 3, 2020 •
ASCB Newsletter
August
Turning Anger Into Action: Minority Students Analyze COVID Data on Racial Disparities
August 12, 2020 •
California Healthline
June
NIH and the Importance of Basic Science Post COVID-19
June 18, 2020 •
R Street Institute
May
The NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository
May 4, 2020 •
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
April
COVID-19 Special Edition with Dr. Jon Lorsch
April 8, 2020 •
ASBMB Pipettes and Politics Podcast
Biomedical Research and the NIH in the Age of COVID-19
April 6, 2020 •
Swarthmore College SwatTalk
March
Career Corner Interview: Dr. Kenny Gibbs
March 31, 2020 •
ASPET PharmTalk Detail
January
Leaving the Reservation for Higher Education: The Story of Two Brothers
January 2, 2020 •
Great Falls Tribune
2019
December
NIH Clarifies Meaning of 'Disadvantaged' in Bid to Boost Diversity in Science
December 13, 2019 •
Science
New System Will Capture and Reuse Scarce Helium for Critical Lab Instruments
December 12, 2019 •
UC Santa Cruz News
October
How Agency Leaders Can Turn Vision Into Action
October 28, 2019 •
Government Executive
September
Off Track
September 2019 •
The Physiologist Magazine
July
MIRA at Three Years: Maximizing NIGMS' Research Investment
July 2, 2019 •
ASCB Newsletter
May
Institutions Hope to Increase Diversity Through the Science of Mentorship
May 16, 2019 •
Insight Into Diversity
February
Dorit Zuk on Her Unconventional Career Journey
February 20, 2019 •
Genes to Genomes
2018
October
An Online Archive with Amazing Images of a Tiny but Essential Element of Life
October 27, 2018 •
Washington Post
Building Diversity in Science, One Interaction at a Time
October 8, 2018 •
Undark
Speeding up evolution to create useful proteins wins the chemistry Nobel
October 3, 2018 •
ScienceNews
September
Looking to the Future of Graduate Biomedical Education
September 14, 2018 •
Scope
August
NIGMS - Leading the Way in STEM Education & Training
August 9, 2018 •
Scientia Global
July
Women and Men Get Research Grants at Equal Rates — If Women Apply in the First Place
July 27, 2018 •
ScienceNews
Leaky Pipeline for Women Scientists Dries Up After They Win First Big Grant
July 18, 2018 •
Nature
Women Maintain NIH Funding Similar to Men: Study
July 16, 2018 •
The Scientist
New Analysis of Funding Trends Offers Encouraging News for Female Investigators—With Caveats
July 16, 2018 •
Science
Science Must Be ‘By All and For All,’ Says Omenn Lecturer
July 12, 2018 •
American Association for the Advancement of Science News
Jon Lorsch: Making NIH Biomedical Research Data More Accessible, Readable
July 3, 2018 •
Federal News Radio
June
Interview with Jon Lorsch, PhD, Director, NIGMS
June 2018 •
ATS Research News Quarterly
Biologist Gathers Genetic Clues from Sea Lampreys
June 29, 2018 •
NIH Record
How NIH is Organizing Its Enormous Troves of Data
June 4, 2018 •
Nextgov
May
NIH funds development of 3 national cryo-electron microscopy centers
May 15, 2018 •
HealthImaging
March
Connected to the Cause
March 01, 2018 •
Hispanic Executive
February
Enhancing Diversity in Science: A Career in Science Policy
February 14, 2018 • American Society for Microbiology
January
The Journey from Durham to DC: Kenneth Gibbs Jr.
January 9, 2018 •
Beyond the Bench: STEMulating Career Conversations
MIRA Awards Reflect Innovation of UConn Scientists
January 8, 2018 •
UConn Today
2017
December
NIH Plans Big Shake-up of Minority Mentoring Network
December 19, 2017 •
Science
Addressing the Research Replication Crisis
December 12, 2017 •
AAMC News
October
Why Do So Many Americans Win the Nobel Prize?
October 6, 2017 •
Inside Science
3 Americans Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Uncovering the Science Behind Our Biological Clocks
October 2, 2017 •
Los Angeles Times
August
Science in Color Podcast – Interview with Dr. Alison Gammie, Director of the Division of
Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity
August 28, 2017 •
Science in Color
Scientia.Global Interview with NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch
August 24, 2017 •
Scientia.Global
July
Chemists Champion Their Future at 2017 National Organic Chemistry Symposium
July 24, 2017 •
Chemical & Engineering News
June
Metabolism: Sweeter Paths in Glycoscience
June 29, 2017 •
Nature Methods
May
The Best-Kept Secrets to Winning Grants
May 24, 2017 •
Nature
April
In the Laboratory of Science Policy: An Interview With Richard Aragon
April 12, 2017 •
eLife
March
Transferring Skills Beyond the Lab
March 1, 2017 •
Science Magazine
Solving the Faculty Diversity Problem
March 1, 2017 •
ASBMB Today
January
Q&A with NIH’s Susan Gregurick
January 17, 2017 •
SIAM News