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Joined June 2008

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Scientists at NIH are studying the exposome—all the things your body is exposed to throughout your life. This includes the air you breathe, the food you eat, chemicals you encounter, and stress. For major diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, genes only tell part of
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NIH All of Us was built on a simple premise: a research program is only as powerful as the people in it. A new study shows what that means in practice. Researchers used genomic data from more than 240,000 All of Us participants to identify the first known genetic risk factor for
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NEWS: Researchers discover single-cell brain activity that underlies human speech. Read the full story ➡️ bit.ly/4xwseGA
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📢 The NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, @HHSGov and @Lyme_X are launching a national tech competition aimed at helping those with complex chronic illnesses like Lyme disease and long COVID find answers in an era where information is abundant, but access can be difficult.
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DYK: Chronic pain affects 1 in 4 Americans. NIH is committed to lowering that figure through rigorous study and gold standard scientific efforts like the NIH HEAL Initiative (Helping to End Addiction Long-term). A strategic roadmap aimed at guiding HEAL research for the next
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An NIH study looking at addiction treatment services across >3100 U.S. counties found that health insurance plays an outsized role in treatment access and use—more so than income level, other socioeconomic factors, health indicators, or healthcare resources. Learn more:
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Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
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We are simplifying how NIH funding works so researchers can spend less time navigating complexity and more time on discovery. Stay informed with @NIH_Innovates, NIH’s new channel dedicated to research news and information for the biomedical research community.
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📢 Are you an early career researcher? Join an NIGMS webinar to learn about PAR-27-032: Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESI). 📝It’s easier than ever to apply with a new streamlined funding opportunity format. 📅 July 15 at 2 PM
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NEWS: For adults with prediabetes, lifestyle intervention lowered risk of developing multiple chronic conditions. Read the full story ➡️ bit.ly/4enHPzl
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Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
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The new Office of Research Innovation, Validation, and Application (ORIVA) will play a key role in helping NIH move towards reducing animal use in research while advancing the development of innovative technologies that better model human biology. ORIVA will coordinate NIH-wide
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🎉 Congratulations to NIH’s Graduate Medical Education Class of 2026! 🎓 84 residents and fellows completed training across 36 residency and fellowship programs at the NIH Clinical Center. Interested in combining clinical training with research and innovation? Learn more:
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NEWS: Dr. Raymond Jacobson selected as director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review. Read the full story ➡️ bit.ly/4fGlv6t
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