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October 13, 1992, NIH Record, Vol. XLIV, No. 21 October 13, 1992 Vol. XLIV No. 21 "Still U.S. Department of Health The Second and Human Services Best Thing National Institutes of About Payday" Health Combining 'Brilliance and Collegiality' NIH's Collaborative Spirit Lauded During 6th Annual Research Fete By Carla Garnette agency's annual affair under tent­ theNIH Research Festival on Sept. 21-22-drew campus colleagues and would-beT collaborators en masse for the sixth time since 1986. Packed chock-full with 31 workshops, five symposia, four poster sessions and 2 days of scientific equipment demonstra­ tions, the celebration ofNIH' s intramural program provided the essence of what many researchers come here expecting-a forum for establishing successful partnerships with talented colleagues. "That's our business at NIH today," saidNIH director Dr. Bernadine Healy, in opening remarks, "to provide brilliant scientists with brilliant colleagues, to give you not just the Dr. Carine Van Lint (l) ofNINDS's Laboratory of Viral and Molecular Pathogenesis gives a spirited tools and the labs and budgets to do your work, explanation ofher poster, "Identification ofSeveral DNA-Binding Proteins Interacting with the HIV-I bur to give you as well the interaction with Intragenic Enhancer" to (froml) Susan Wilt, Julius Rajcani and Constantine Chipev. Thetwo Research professional companionship that turns ideas Festival poster sessions each drew some 2,000 participants, said officials. into discoveries." 30th Anniversary Celebration Citing the lateNIH'er Dr. Joseph Goldberger's hypothesis about a "pellagra- Three Decades of NICHD Research Accomplishments (See RESEARCH FESTIVAL, Page 6) Moving Beyond Parity isproving the 1960's axiom to "never Medallion of Excellence in recognition of his D trust anyone over 30," theNational accomplishments, including being "the father of NIH Celebrates Women's Institute of Child Health and theNICHD." Later that evening,NICHD Equality, Achievements Human Development celebrated its 30th staff, council members, and friends attended a By Carla Garnett birthday last month as a trusted leader of birthday dinner at the Strathmore Hall Arts biomedical research on human development. Center inNorth Bethesda. eventy-rwo years after women were given The anniversary festivities began Sept. 21 with TheNICHD was foundedin 1962 in . a special council meeting honoring Dr. Robert response to a task force report to President the right to vote, 1992 has already been categorized politically as "The Year of E. Cooke, a leading pediatric scientist and Kennedy calling for a new institute at NIH to theS Woman." With more than a hundred educator, who originated the concept of the maintain a "concentrated attack" against women vying forseats in Congress this year and NICHD and effectively guided through problems of maternal and child health and women accounting for about 51 percent of the Congress the legislation that established the disorders in human development. With this country's people, there has probably been no institute. U.S. Surgeon General Antonia mandate in mind, the fledglingNICHD strived better time to invoke the theme ofNIH's Novello, formerNICHD deputy director, for an understanding of developmental disor- observance of the achievements of the world's presented Cooke with the Surgeon General's (See ANNIVERSARY, Page 8) distaffpopulation: "Celebrate Women's Equality," held on Sept. 17. NIDR's Bldg. 30 To Add Five-Story Tower Sponsored byNIH's Office of Equal Oppor­ ldg. 30, home of theNational Institute "With the proximity of Bldgs. 49 and 29B tunity and the NIH advisory committee for of Dental Research, was built in 1958 and all their construction, our contractor has women, "Celebrate" marked more than the and has, until recently, remained had to maneuver big machines in a very small adoption of the 19th amendment to the largelyB intact with no major renovations or space," explains Nancy Boyd, project officer Constitution. "The right to vote is not only a additions. from the Design and Construction Branch, celebration of women's ability to participate in Construction began in June, however, on a Division of Engineering Services. "We are the political process of electing our nation's five-story addition. The tower, as it is called, is trying to preserve as many trees as possible leaders," said OEO Director Diane Armstrong, being added on the east side of Bldg. 30 across which makes it even more difficult. We are at in opening remarks, "it is also a recognition of from Bldg. 29. the most difficultstage of construction because women's equality as intellectual participants in The tower addition will be five stories high we are in the midst of relocating main utility the future of our nation." with 9,400 gross square feet of space. It will pipes and other utilities such as electrical and Welcoming the Wilson Hall audience, house a modern loading dock that can be phone line duct banks." Federal Women's Program Manager Lucretia locked when not in use. Along with laboratory To provide access between the new addition Coffer recalled the words of Dr. Rosalyn Yalow, space, there will be a mechanical/electrical and the original building, quarter-moon who in 1977 became the second woman to room, a cold room and autoclave facilityto passageways on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floorswill receive theNobel Prize for Physiology or support the labs. be added to the side of the tower. "Although Medicine: "We cannot expect in the immedi­ The construction, scheduled for completion this connection will penetrate the original ate future that all women who seek it will in the late summer of 1993, will cost an building, it will not involve relocation of (See WOMEN'S EQUALITY, Page 4) estimated $2.3 million. (See ADDITION, Page 2) The Record page 2 October 13, 1992 ADDITION (Continued from Page 1) workers because we will enter the old building in what is now corridor space," Boyd explains. At present, the original main entrance to Bldg. 30 is being used as a service entrance. "The beautiful marble foyer and terrazzo floors have been covered with plywood to protect them. The vendors have been extremely cooperative in making smaller deliveries to accommodate the closing of the loading dock," noted Boyd. Boyd, an engineer who has been at DES for 5 years, calls the project exciting. 'This project Construction site of the tower addition to Bldg. 30, as seen from a laboratory in the building IHS Needs Internist Normal Volunteers Sought The Indian Health Service has an opening for The Laboratory of Chemoprevention, NCI, is a full-time internist in Shiprock, N. Mex., looking for healthy postmenopausal females starting this month. Join three other internists who are not on hormone replacement therapy in an expanding practice in the Four Corners to act as normal controls for a clinical breast area of the Navajo Reservation. This is a cancer trial in which plasma levels of a growth challenging in- and outpatient practice with Project officerNancy Boyd points to the new inhibitory protein will be measured. Subjects opportunity to do procedures such as would donate 15cc of blood, and would paid addition on a small scale mock-up ofBldg. 30. be echocardiography, stress tests, and endoscopy. $10. If interested, call Dr. Lalage Wakefield or Note tht' quarter-moon passageways on the right. IHS cares for 40,000 Navajo Indians in this Dr. John Letterio, 496-5391. 0 improves the aesthetics of Bldg. 30. It makes sector. Salary, housing, moving expenses the present back of the building become provided, as well as 6 weeks of vacation and 1 another front with the addition of a new back week of CME. Call (505) 368-4971. 0 entrance and glass-fronted rear stairwell."­ TheNIH Record Anne Barber 0 Escalator Safety Urged for NIH'ers Published biweekly at Bethesda, Md., by the Editorial MEDLINE Marks Milestone Operations Branch, Division of Public Information,for Although only three accidents on NIH's four the informationof employees of the National Institutes of The indexing staff at the National Library of campus escalators (two each in Bldgs. 10 and Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and Medicine indexed a record number of citations 31) have been reported in the past 10 years, the circulated to nonemployees by subscription only through during a given year with the addition of the Maintenance Engineering Branch, DES, which the Government Printing Office. The content is reprintable 400,000th record to the MEDLINE database maintains the escalators, offers the following without permission. Pictures may be available on request. on Sept. 24. do's and don'ts, which are also applicable on Use of funds forprinting this periodical has been approved In 1966, the firstyear for which MED LINE the Metro station escalator: by the director of the Office of Management and Budget data are available, approximately 165,000 through September 30, 1993. articles were indexed from 2,436 journals. NIH Record Office Correspondents: Today, NLM is indexing articles from more DO Bldg. 31, Room 2B-03 CC, Sue Kendall Phone 496-2125 than 3,700 of the world's biomedical journals. Step over the comb plate when getting on or DCRT, Anne P. Enright off Fax402-1485 DRG, N. Sue Meadows Eighty-three percent of the articles are in Stand as close to the middle of the step as Editor FIC, Jim Bryant English; the rest are in some 40 other lan­ NCI, Patricia A. 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