Scotty Has the Helm

New HIV vaccine center has Haynes at its helm.

The new Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), set up by the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is a consortium of researchers at various universities who will collaborate with the goal of creating an effective HIV vaccine that can be used worldwide. Barton Haynes, a Duke University immunologist and director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, is CHAV...

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...

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...

Medical Men at the Helm

Francis Collins: manning the helm with optimism.

F Sellers Collins, who was sworn in as the 16th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday August 17, 2009, is well acquainted with big projects, big budgets, and big politics. He had previously served as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from 1993 to 2008, during which he oversaw the US publically financed arm of the Human Genome Project.1–4 Co...