At the Helm: Two Exciting Years as TOS President

Marty Gibbs's 30 years at the helm of Plant Physiology.

Demagogues at the helm.

Amazing, mind-boggling, incomprehensible, indefensible. The decision by the Federal Government to abolish the mandatory long-form of the census may be the worst policy decision of the past decade in Canada. The impact of this decision, if it is not reversed, will be felt for many years to come and, if it remains in effect over other census cycles or if it is a harbinger of things to come, could...

At the helm of the NIDDK.

As of April 2007, Griffin P. Rodgers has taken over as director of the NIDDK, but had been the deputy director under Allen Spiegel since 2001 and the chief of Hematology since 1998. The JCI took the opportunity to ask this career investigator in the NIH about his goals and visions for the NIDDK. JCI: You moved quickly from chief of Hematology to deputy director of the NIDDK to director — what d...

Medical Men at the Helm

Twenty Years of Exciting Neuroscience

Twenty years ago, Neuron was launched with the aim of providing a forum for the publication of research in cellular and molecular neurobiology. In the late eighties, molecular biology had exploded as a field and was providing powerful new experimental tools for probing cellular function. The founding editors of the journal—Zach Hall, A.J. Hudspeth, Eric Kandel, and Louis Reichardt— envisioned t...