We at NLM in Focus do our best to inform you about the people, products, and programs of the world’s largest medical library. However, there are always more questions to answer and realms to explore. In this occasional feature, we answer questions on Wednesdays that we think might be on your mind and invite you…
“I had been told all this discrimination against women, from the 1970s, was a thing of the past,” said Colleen Bollin of the National Center for Biotechnology Information. “Unfortunately, that was a lie.” She knows. From her college years to her distinguished career leading the technical development team for processing submissions to GenBank, Bollin has…
In the just posted issue of NIH MedlinePlus magazine, host of “American Ninja Warrior” and comedian Matt Iseman shares how he has coped with rheumatoid arthritis. From the relief he felt when he was diagnosed to the exercise and standup comedy that keep him going, Iseman is forthright about his challenges. He says, “I am walking proof…
Colleen Bollin is not a biologist, a mathematician, or a statistician. Her degree is in engineering. And yet she leads the technical development team for processing submissions to GenBank, the world’s largest genetic sequence data repository developed and maintained by NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). How she got to NCBI started at a…
What happens to former students involved in the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth? Sometimes, they work at the National Institutes of Health and NLM. That’s what happened to Adam Korengold and several NLM interns. On June 25, they joined about a dozen other NIH employees wearing “Ask Me About My Awesome Job at…
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