As the current NICHD Basic Sciences Institutes and Centers (IC) Representative, I represent NICHD postdoctoral fellows at the NIH Fellows Committee (FelCom) meeting every month and share the latest news with you here. Do you have a concern or question that you want brought up at the next meeting? Contact me at lauren.walling@nih.gov!
For anyone who needs a quiet place to conduct interviews, including postbacs who may have virtual graduate or medical school interviews, Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE) can provide this. Please reach out to Lori Conlon (conlanlo@mail.nih.gov).
The Office of Intramural Research announced that Dr. Michael Gottesman is stepping down as the Deputy Director for Intramural Research. The search to replace him is ongoing, with interviews planned in March.
The 2023 Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) award will be open from February 9th to March 9th. This year, there will be a new one-hour workshop available to introduce the FARE application, followed by a Q&A session. For more information, visit the FARE website,https://www.training.nih.gov/felcom/fare.
Save the Date: The 2022 Women Scientists Advisors (WSA) Scholar Symposium will be held virtually on April 25th from 9–10:30 a.m. The 2022 WSA Scholars, Dr. Ching-Wen Chang, postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Human Carcinogensis (NCI), and Dr. Sally Chang, postdoctoral fellow in the Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch (NHGRI), will give talks on their current research. For more information about the 2022 WSA Scholar Symposium and other WSA events, please join the WSA listserv at https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=WSA-L and visit the WSA website at https://sigs.nih.gov/wsa.