For more than two decades, while under the leadership of director Dr. John I. Gallin, the NIH Clinical Center achieved scientific advances that are saving hundreds of thousands of lives, pioneered countless patient-centered initiatives and trained the next generation of clinician-scientists. This January, Gallin will complete a transition from hospital director to a newly created role as NIH Associate Director for Clinical Research and Chief Scientific Officer for the Clinical Center, where he can leverage his unparalleled experience to tackle a number of emergent challenges facing both the hospital and the Intramural Research Program.

Five new innovative research projects, recently funded by the NIH, will soon bring together NIH intramural research­ers with researchers from institutions across the nation. Collaboratively, these top scientists will conduct promising new protocols within the NIH Clinical Cen­ter, jointly utilizing some of the broad resources the research hospital can offer.