Message from Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., Director, NIDDK, on the Institute’s Obesity Research

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A Message from the Director Steven Ealick

In May 2009, NE-CAT applied for a high end equipment grant from NCRR to fund the purchase of a Pixel Array Detector (PAD). As a class, PADs are generally acknowledged as the near-term successor to CCD’s at 3rd generation synchrotron crystallography beamlines. The PILATUS-6M, from Dectris Ltd., is the first commercially available PAD suitable for synchrotron-based macromolecular crystallographic...

A Message from the Director Steven

A Message from the Director Steven Ealick Welcome to the latest edition of NE-CAT Communications, our biannual newsletter. NE-CAT concludes 2009 very successfully with excellent scientific productivity and improvements in all areas. The installation of an improved ALS-style sample automounter on the 24-ID-E monochromatic beamline is complete and the improvements have received rave reviews from ...

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...