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NIDDK
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is part of the United States National Institutes of Health, which in turn is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. NIDDK is approximately the fifth-largest of the 27 NIH institutes. The institute's mission is to support research, training, and communication with the public in the topic areas of "diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases". As of 2021, the Director of the institute is Griffin P. Rodgers, who assumed the position on an acting basis in 2006 and on a permanent basis in 2007. Mission The mission of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is to conduct and support medical research and research training and to disseminate science-based information on diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attila Szabo (scientist)
Attila Szabo is a biophysicist who is a Distinguished Investigator and Section Chief of the Theoretical Biophysical Chemistry Section in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the United States National Institutes of Health. Early life and education Szabo was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1947. His family left Hungary in response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - he later recalled a dramatic escape over the border to Austria - and immigrated to Canada, settling in Montreal. Interested in chemistry since he was a child, Szabo studied the subject at McGill University as an undergraduate and received his bachelor's degree in 1968. He then began graduate school at Harvard University, where he joined Martin Karplus' research group. There he was introduced to theoretical work on NMR spectroscopy and developed a statistical mechanics, statistical mechanical model of the hemoglobin protein. Szabo accompanied K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NIH Revitalization Act Of 1993
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The majority of NIH facilities are located in Bethesda, Maryland, and other nearby suburbs of the Washington metropolitan area, with other primary facilities in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina and smaller satellite facilities located around the United States. The NIH conducts its own scientific research through the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program. , the IRP had 1,200 principal investigators and more than 4,000 postdoctoral fellows in basic, translational, and clinical research, being the largest biomedical research institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
