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June 12, 1979, NIH Record, Vol. XXXI, No. 12 The NIH Record U.S. Department June 12 National of Health, 1979 Institutes Education, and Vol. XXXI of Welfare No. 12 Health Steroid Receptor Use in Breast Cancer DIRECTOR'S AWARDS Will Be Discussed at Consensus Seminar NIH Employees A 3-day consensus development conference of qualitative and quantitative presence of on Steroid Receptors in Breast Cancer will be hormone receptors in breast cancer tissue. held in the Masur Auditorium on June 27, 28, The NIH consensus development confer­ To Be Honored and 29, and is being sponsored by the ence series brings together research scientists, Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson, NIH Director, National Cancer Institute and the Office for physicians, allied health care providers and Medical Applications of Research, NIH. will recognize the outstanding accomplish­ others to assess the safety and efficacy of any ments of various staff members at the 11th The consensus meeting will bring together medical technology in question. more than 50 experts from around the world Annual NIH Honor Awards Ceremony on Past research has indicated that about 40 Monday, June 18, at 1 :45 p.m. in the Masur to clarify the role of steroid hormone recep­ percent of breast cancers have either estrogen tors in determining therapy for breast cancer Auditorium. or other steroid receptors and 60 to 70 and indicating prognosis. The NIH Director's Award will be presented The international group of participants, percent of these tumors are responsive to to 41 Civil Service employees, 2 former NIH under the chairmanship of Dr. Eugene R. therapy by manipulation of these hormones. staff members, and 1 HEW employee, and the DeSombre of the University of Chicago, who The comparative reliabillty of the various PHS Commendation Medal will be presented is also chairman of NCl's Breast Cancer Task methods of tissue analysis for steroid recep­ to 26 Commissioned Officers. The NIH-EEO Award of the Year, the Harvey Force, will examine all facets of the question tors also will be discussed. L. Bullock, Jr. Award for Equal Opportunity Achievements, and 40-Year Length-of-Service Awards also will be presented. Viruses May Cause Some Dr. Fredrickson, assisted by B/ I/ D Directors, will present the awards, and Dr. William F. Raub, NIH Associate Director for Extramural Juvenile Diabetes Research and Training, will serve as master of ceremonies and read the award citations. Dr. Recovery of a coxsackievirus from the duce the disease; and finally, it must be Philip Handler, President of the National . pancreas of a child who died with acute­ recovered from that diseased animal." Academy of Sciences, will deliver the keynote onset diabetes, and the induction of diabetes The research report by Drs. Ji-Won Yoon, address. in mice with this virus adds support to the Takashi Onodera, and Abner Louis Notkins Music will be provided by the U.S. Air Force theory that some cases of juvenile-onset of NIDR, and Marshall Austin of NNMC in Ceremonial Band. All NIH employees are diabetes may be caused by viruses, according Bethesda, is the first documented instance of invited to attend the ceremony which will last to scientists of the National Institute of Dental the recovery of a virus from the pancreas approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. Research and the National Naval Medical of a patient with juvenile diabetes. (See Pages 4-8) Center. Their report appeared in the May 24 Since the turn of the century, physicians issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. have suggested that viruses might be one of The journal's editorial sta ted that the new the causes of juvenile diabetes (a different findings come close to fulfilling Koch's postu­ disease from adult-onset diabetes), but solid lates for experimental proof "that an orga­ proof has never been obtained. According to nism causes a disease." His postulates require this theory, viruses produce diabetes by in­ that the "agent must be observed in patients fecting and destroying the beta cells of the with the disease; it must be isolated and pancreas. grown in cul ture; the agent must, when last year, Dr. Notkins and his colleagues inoculated into a susceptible animal, repro- reported that variants of two viruses that are present in the human population could pro­ Prof. Elsen Will Share duce diabetes-like syndromes in mice by His Expertise on Rodin infecting and destroying pancreatic beta cells. At NIH Lecture Tomorrow One of these viruses, reo type 3, is found in the respiratory and digestive tracts, but is not Prof. Albert Elsen will present the NIH thought to produce serious disease. lecture on the artist, Rodin, tomorrow (June The other, Coxsackie 84, causes a variety 13) at 8:15 p.m. in the Masur Auditorium. of illnesses including cold-like symptoms. His lecture is entitled In Rodin's Studio: The (See DIABETES, Page 10) Sculptor and Photographers. Professor Elsen, a leading scholar on A "rilsurei" or standing bow is given by a student Rodin's work, is a Walter A. Hass Professor of to Dr. M.alone prior to their pairing off on an art history at Stanford University. exercise. (See Page 3.) Some Major Parking Changes Effective June 18 The NIH Record JL__.}L_Pl----__.J l__ _ Published biweekly at Bethesda, Md., by the Editorial :&i ;;;; ;:;; 0~c~•-~-•~•-o~•~••~r•o~w~•==•~o•~•===='1i'7--- - , Operations Branch, Division of Public Information, tor the ::::-_:_:- information of employees of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health, Ed ucation, and Welfare, and ll!VIUD: M•rd'I l , 1977 circulated by request to writers and to researchers in biomedical and related fields. The content is reprintable COtlVENT A~U, w ithout permission. Pictures are available on request. r The NIH Record reserves the right to make corrections, changes, o r deletions in submitted copy in conformity with the policies of the paper and HEW. Denotes parking NIH Record Otllce Bldg. 31, Room 28-03, Phone 496-2125 ■ change Edllor Frances W. Davis Stall Writer William B. Reinckens Stall Correopondent• ADA, Judy Fouche; CC, Susan Gerho ld; DCRT, Mary Hodges; DRG, Sue Meadows; DRR, Barbara Menick; DRS, Arthur F. Moore; FIC, George Presson; NCI, Dr. Robert M. Hadsell; NEI, Marsha Corbett; NHLBI, 8111 Sanders; NIA, Ann Dief­ fenbach; NIAlp. Jeanne Winnick; NIAMDD, Diane Naedel; NICHD, Tina McIntosh; NIDR, Sally W ilberding; NIEHS, Hugh J. lee; NIGMS, Wanda Warddell; NIMH, Betty 41 B Zubovic; NINGDS, Doris Parker; NLM, RoJW L. Gilkeson. June 25 Nomination Deadline " For G.A. Seminar Series This drawing indicates the NIH area where parking changes will be effected. The Ambulatory Care Research Facility Parking Garage is located off Conv2nt Drive where 10-F is shown. June 25 is the deadline date for B/1/D Directors' nominations for the 1979-80 Grants Associates seminar series. These weekly A major parking change will take place, bearing general employee parking permits seminars, beginning in September 1979, will effective next Monday (June 18), in the (blue decals). The entire B-2 level (300 spaces) cover a variety of topics related to extramural Ambulatory Care Research Facility Parking will remain reserved for general employee p rograms. Garage (ACRF), B-1 level; the Multilevel parking. Directors are now being asked to nominate Parking Garage 6 (MLP-6), 3rd level, north • All of lot 10-1 which is presently no more than four candidates for the seminar side; and the parking areas serving Bldgs. 10, reserved for red parking permits will be series rather than the previously announced 30, and 29A: reserved for general employee parking (blue two. • All reserved parking now in lot 10-C will decals). Interested staff members should send their be relocated to the ACRF garage, B-1 level. This includes all preferential, director, CC • Parking areas now reserved for general CV's through their immediate supervisors to employee parking which will be reserved for thei r respective B/1/D Directors, who are volunteer, CC special, and consultant parking spaces. red parking permits are: Bldg. 29A, rear, 11 requested to forward the CV's with a memo spaces; Bldg. 30, front, 19 spaces; Bldg. 29, of endorsement to A. Robert Polcari, execu­ • In the ACRF garage, B-1 level, 116 parking spaces will be reserved for vehicles bearing east stairwell , 6 spaces; and MLP-6, 3rd level, tive secretary of the Grants Associates north side, 50 spaces. Program, Bldg. 31, Rm. 1A-10. red parking permits (red decals). Dr. William F. Raub, Associate Director for • Also, 100 parking spaces will be reserved • All of lots 10-C and 10-D will be reserved Extramural Research, NIH, will make the in .the ACRF garage, B-1 level, for vehicles for outpatient parking. final selection. Brazilian Guitarist Plays Baltimore-Bethesda Bus Makes Trial Run Hispanic Works A 41-seat passenger bus is now running A guitar concert will be given by Brazilian from Baltimore to NIH, Bethesda, Monday virtuoso Carlos Barbos-Lima at the Masur through Friday, for a 2-week trial period Auditorium on Tuesday, June 19, from noon through June 15. to 1 p.m. Arrangements for the bus, which arrives at This 1-hour program will feature music NIH before 8:30 a.m., have been made by a composed by South American composers and group of NIH employees. For more details, is being sponsored by the Hispanic-American call Shirley Gregg, 496-4506. Cultural Committee. Mr. Barbos-Lima was a student of Spain's legendary Andres Segovia and Uruguayan Joint Blood Donor Drive To Be Held guitarist Isaias Savio. He has been praised as June 21 in Westwood Building being "gifted by the goddess of music" by The Clinical Center Blood Bank and the Maestro Segovia.
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