NOVEMBER 2, 2007 The Second Best Thing About Payday VOL. LIX, NO. 22 Meeting the Requirements of HSPD-12 NIH Badging Effort Works to Accommodate Crowds By Rich McManus ABOVE · Passing judgment on a two-step? CFC 2007 asks NIH’ers to rate something ast spring, NIH committed to an enormous task: provide new identification cards other than science. See story, p. 16. L by the end of October to more than 5,500 employees, both new hires and old features hands, plus a constant flow of contractors, fellows, summer students, tenants, volun- 1 teers, special guests and others who need the NIH Copes with New ID Badging Requirements cards to enter campus every day. Complicating the challenge has been NIH’s 3 need to comply with Homeland Security Pres- Coller To Give ‘Astute’ Lecture idential Directive (HSPD) 12, which man- NIH Grantees Win Nobel Prize dates—for all federal workers, contractors and affiliates—background investigations, -re 5 gardless of how long you have worked for the Secretary Leavitt Pays Call on NIH Queue forms for new badges in Bldg. 31. federal government, fingerprinting and 8 see badging effort, page 6 NIH Research Festival Celebrates Belated 20th Year NIH Treatment a Family Affair for Burlings By Rich McManus 16 CFC Gets Off to a Lively Start On Friday, Sept. 14, the first anniversary of his initial visit to NIH, Patrick Burling of Newtown Square, Pa., was hale and hearty, so confident of his beloved Philadelphia Eagles’ chances of departments success in the following Monday evening’s clash with the Redskins that he presented the fiercely Briefs 2 partisan hometown fans who staff the Clinical Feedback 11 Center’s department of transfusion medicine (DTM) with genuine Eagles jerseys. Milestones 12 Digest 14 No one was happier to witness the good- Volunteers 15 natured trash-talking than Patrick’s mother NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci (l) accepts Maureen, who for the past year has accompa- Lasker Award from Nobel laureate Dr. Joseph nied her son on bimonthly trips to the Blood Goldstein. (Photo: Joe Vericker, PhotoBureau, Inc.) Bank, where both manage a common genetic disease—hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), Fauci Wins 2007 Lasker Award for Public or excess iron in the blood—with a simple Service therapy: phlebotomy, or blood donation. NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci has received The Burlings learned the hard way about HH, the 2007 Mary Woodard Lasker Award for a disorder that, according to Dr. Susan Leit- Public Service for his role in developing two man, chief of DTM’s blood services section, is major U.S. public health programs, in AIDS one of the most common single-gene heredi- and biodefense. The award was presented on tary diseases in the United States, affecting Sept. 28 during a luncheon ceremony in New 1 in 200 Caucasians of northern European York City. descent. Leitman thinks every teenager in the Fauci was honored for his role in helping The NIH Record is recyclable as office U.S. ought to be screened for it, and Patrick’s Á white paper. story tells why. develop the President’s Emergency Plan for see burlings, page 4 see lasker award, page 10 dental enrollment. FAES offers CareFirst BlueCross/ BlueShield PPO and a voluntary HMO/PPO dental plan through Cigna. More information may be obtained from the FAES web site at www.faes.org or from the FAES busi- briefs ness office, Bldg. 10, Rm. B1C18. To schedule an appointment, call (301) 496-8063. 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He also worked at the Clinical Cen- Coronary Artery ter from 1972 to 1976 in the clinical pathology Disease department. The Astute Clinician Lecture was established “From the Rivers of through a gift from the late Dr. Robert W. Babylon to the Coro- Miller and his wife, Haruko. It honors a U.S. nary Blood Stream” scientist who has observed an unusual clini- will be the topic of cal occurrence, and by investigating it, has the 2007 Astute Cli- opened a new avenue of research. For infor- nician Lecture on mation and accommodations, contact Gloria Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 3 p.m. in Masur Audito- Hairston, (301) 594-6747. rium, Bldg. 10. The speaker will be Dr. Barry Coller, David NIH Grantees Win 2007 Nobel Prize Rockefeller professor of medicine, head of the laboratory of blood and vascular biology and The 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is shared by two long- physician-in-chief of Rockefeller University time NIH grantees, Dr.