The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) is one of the institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health,an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is the third largest Institute of the National Institutes of Health,located in Bethesda,Maryland,United States. It is tasked with allocating about $3.6 billion in FY 2020 in tax revenue to advancing the understanding of the following issues:development and progression of disease,diagnosis of disease,treatment of disease,disease prevention,reduction of health care disparities within the American population,and advancing the effectiveness of the US medical system. NHLBI's Director is Gary H. Gibbons (2012–present).
Tight junctions,also known as occluding junctions or zonulae occludentes,are multiprotein junctional complexes whose canonical function is to prevent leakage of solutes and water and seals between the epithelial cells. They also play a critical role maintaining the structure and permeability of endothelial cells. Tight junctions may also serve as leaky pathways by forming selective channels for small cations,anions,or water. The corresponding junctions that occur in invertebrates are septate junctions.
Elizabeth Nabel is an American cardiologist and Executive Vice President of Strategy at ModeX Therapeutics and OPKO Health. Prior to this role,she served as President of Brigham Health and its Brigham and Women's Hospital,Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School,and Director of the NIH's National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute.
Joe G. N. "Skip" Garcia is an American pulmonary scientist,physician and academician.
Eric D. Green is an American genomics researcher who had significant involvement in the Human Genome Project. He is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),a position he has held since 2009.
Susan Shurin is a senior adviser at the National Cancer Institute. From 2006–2014,she served as Deputy and Acting Director of the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Lana Skirboll is the former director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Science Policy.
Clarice D. Reid is an American pediatrician born in Birmingham,Alabama,who led the National Sickle Cell Disease Program at the U.S. National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health. She went on to become the Director of Division of Blood Diseases and Resources at NHLBI. Reid was a member of the 1985-1986 Taskforce on Black and Minority Health. She has also served as President Emeritus on the American Bridge Association's Education and Charitable Foundation,and has scored a rare perfect bridge score.
Jason X.-J. Yuan is an American physician scientist whose research interests center on pulmonary vascular pathobiology and pulmonary hypertension. His current research is primarily focused on the pathogenic mechanisms of pulmonary vascular diseases and right heart failure.
Michael I. Kotlikoff is an American biomedical researcher,academic leader,and veterinarian who has served as the provost of Cornell University. His work on cardiovascular biology,optogenetics,mouse genetics,and ion channel function has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1986. He has served on numerous NIH panels,including chair of the Scientific Board of Councillors of the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the NIH Council of Councils,as well as national and international Higher Education committees,including Chair of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute Board and the Advisory Committee for the CityUniversity of Hong Kong Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine.
Martha Vaughan was an American biochemist at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI),part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda,Maryland. She holds the title of emeritus scientist in the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and previously served as chief of NHLBI’s Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism. At the NIH,much of her work has focused on cell signaling,cellular regulation,lipid metabolism,and the identification of key proteins associated with cholera toxin and pertussis toxin. Vaughan first came to the NIH in the agency’s fledgling National Heart Institute,now NHLBI,and with the title of senior assistant surgeon worked on protein synthesis in the Building 3 laboratory of biochemist and public scientist Christian B. Anfinsen,Ph.D.,who went on to share the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Clare M. Waterman is a cell biologist who has worked on understanding the role of the cytoskeleton in cell migration. Waterman is a Distinguished Investigator,Chief of the Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics,and Director of the Cell and Developmental Biology Center at the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute (NHLBI),in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda MD,USA. Waterman has received several awards and honors,including the Sackler International prize in Biophysics,the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award,and the Arthur S. Flemming Award for Public Service. In 2018,she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She currently serves on the editorial boards of eLife,Current Biology and Journal of Microscopy.
The Division of Program Coordination,Planning,and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) is a division of the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States of America. DPCPSI was formally established as part of implementing the requirements of the NIH Reform Act of 2006. The Division coordinates research and activities from a trans-NIH perspective.
Krishnan Raghavendran is Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School,Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery,Director of the Michigan Center for Global Surgery,and a trauma,critical care,and general surgeon.
Stephanie L. Constant is an American immunologist and science administrator. She was an associate professor at George Washington University and a scientific review officer at National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute before becoming chief of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Office of Scientific Review in 2017.
Jodi Beth Black is an American microbiologist and research administrator serving as deputy director of the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health. She was previously the director and vice president of research administration at the Translational Genomics Research Institute and the acting director of the division of extramural activities at the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute.
Dina Nicole Paltoo is an American epidemiologist specializing in open science,data science,and public access. She is the assistant director for scientific strategy and innovation at the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute.
Cynthia Dunbar is an American scientist and hematologist at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI),which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the Branch Chief of the Translational Stem Cell Biology Branch.
Monica Kraft is an American scientist,medical professor and researcher. She is the System Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Health System. She is also the Murray M. Rosenberg Professor of Medicine.
