• Senator Jack Reed discusses cancer research with Dr. Christie Heske, an investigator in the NCI Pediatric Oncology Branch.
  • NIDA Director, Dr. Nora Volkow (left) discusses imaging studies that show how addiction affects different brain regions with Rep. Andrea Salinas (second to left), Rep. Terri Sewell (center), and Rep. Yadira Caraveo (right) at the PET Imaging Lab in the Clinical Center.
  • Dr. Larry Tabak traveled to the University of Kansas for a visit hosted by Senator Jerry Moran. Shown at an event celebrating a new cancer center are Senator Jerry Moran (far left), leadership from the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas health sytem, and Larry Tabak (far right).
  • Rep. Pete Sessions (middle) receiving hands on experience learning about ocular and stem cell translational research from some of the National Eye Institute’s (NEI) researchers at their lab in the 51ÊÓƵ Clinical Center.
  • Senator Roy Blunt (middle) learns about the Alzheimer’s disease research during the grand opening of the Roy Blunt Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (CARD) from principal investigators. Senator Blunt is accompanied by his wife, Abbly Blunt (to his right), CARD Director Dr. Andy Singleton and Dr. Larry Tabak (to his left).
  • Rep. Brittany Pettersen (right) thanks Pei Robins, an Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) trainee after a demonstration of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy in the Clinical Center. Dr. Sarah (Holly) Lisanby, head of NIMH’s noninvasive neuromodulation unit, converses with Rep. Madeleine Dean in the background.
  • NCI’s Dr. Jack Shern, head of the Pediatric Oncology Branch’s (POB) tumor and evolution and genomics section (right) and Chief of NCI’s POB, Dr. Brigitte Widemann (second from right), discuss the unique challenges of childhood cancer with Rep. Yadira Caraveo (center), and Rep. Terri Sewell (left).
  • Senator Bernie Sanders visited the 51ÊÓƵ Clinical Center in January 2023. He is photographed here visiting a model of the 51ÊÓƵ Clinical Center with Dr. James Gilman, the CEO of the 51ÊÓƵ Clinical Center.
  • Nine members of Congress’ New Democrat Coalition visited 51ÊÓƵ campus in July of 2023. Participants are (seated, from l) Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-OR), Rep. Brittany Petterson (D-CO), Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL), Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO); (standing) Dr. Marie Bernard, Dr. Alfred Johnson, Rep. Sean Casten (D-NJ), Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Dr. Lawrence Tabak, Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA), Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and Dr. Tara Schwetz.

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