In our series of Quick Q&As with scientists who work in the NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), we’re pleased to introduce the three members of the Bioinformatics in Medical Genetics Group. The leader of the group, Alejandro Schäffer, shares a memorable lesson. Mike Gertz tells how his family influenced his career. And Eric…
Everyone begins their career at the National Library of Medicine the same way—hand over heart speaking out loud the Oath of Office. It reminds each of us that we are serving our country and that our work is sacred and important. I am thankful to be part of an organization that is founded on service…
Southcentral Foundation, led by former NLM Board of Regents member Katherine Gottlieb, has been selected to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award announced on November 16 by the US Secretary of Commerce. “The Foundation is the only health entity in the US to have won this award twice,” said Gottlieb, president of Southcentral Foundation. “It…
Director of NCBI, Dr. Jim Ostell called his journey to NCBI “a long and winding and strange road.” Part one of this circuitous path, which NLM in Focus published last week, included college classes he never thought he’d need, counter-cultural days, studying the anatomy of the cricket, borrowing a secretary’s computer because it was the…
Jim Ostell’s journey to NCBI? “It was a long and winding and strange road,” he said with a laugh, looking back on life before he joined the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). But when the road ended, Ostell found what he wanted and needed—and then some. For the man who once gave away computer…
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