National Institute of
General Medical Sciences

2022

September

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