Clinical Center News
July / August 2024
David Lunter talking to a family member

A Roadmap to Improve Communication in the ICU

This is the third installment of Marcy Mager’s observations about the processes and procedures used in the NIH Clinical Center to provide care to patients who are severely ill. Full Story

CCE Modular Terrace

Center for Cellular Engineering Unveils New Manufacturing Facility

The Center for Cellular Engineering (CCE) will soon unveil its new, roughly $20 million Modular Terrace Facility. Full Story

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Diane Dowling, Dr. Harvey Alter, Dr. James Gilman, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli and Dr. Lawrence Tabak

Clinical Center Honors Its Own Nobel Laureate

The Clinical Center recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the NIH History Center and Stetten Museum exhibit on Dr. Harvey Alter. Full Story

Dr. Monica Bertagnolli and Dr. Stephanie Goff

NIH Director Scrubs In at the Clinical Center

NIH Director, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli and NCI, Dr. Stephanie Goff operated on a woman with metastatic melanoma to remove a tumor from her thigh muscle, which is part of a clinical trial's protocol to test the effect of using combo immunotherapy drugs in a patient with metastatic melanoma. Full Story

Elyas Khandwalla

How the NIH Clinical Center Cured Elyas Khandwalla

Participating in a clinical trial, a seventh-grader received a life-saving bone marrow transplant, shedding light on a promising new preoperative conditioning treatment. Full Story

Music in the atrium concerts continue to bring songs, sounds to patients, staff during the pandemic
Once again, the sounds of live music are soaring through the Clinical Center to benefit patients and staff.
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U.S. Air Force String Quartet musician
Hospital begins journey to earn Magnet accreditation
Led by the Nursing Department, the Clinical Center has started the journey to achieve accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Magnet® hospital.
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Journey to Magnet Excellence American Nurses Credentialing Center
NIH researchers in Building 10 search for knowledge, therapies for COVID-19
Researchers at the NIH have joined those across the nation and the world in the search for a better understanding of COVID-19 and the therapies that may be used to care for those diagnosed...
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Healthy volunteer Tanvee Singh holding plasma she's donating
Hospital at NIH opens new clinical trials: COVID-19 treatment, improvements for people with mild to moderate psoriasis, a better understanding of the germline RUNX1 mutations
For more information on trials, or to learn about other available opportunities to participate in research studies...
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Children sitting together
Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. Tony Fauci, and several others, including frontline healthcare workers, receive COVID-19 vaccination at NIH Clinical Center
On Dec. 22, NIH hosted a COVID-19 Vaccine Kick-Off event in the Clinical Center.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci receiving the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
Nobel Prize win for Clinical Center scientist
It began with an early morning phone call. Instead of a telemarketer or an over-eager candidate jarring him out of bed, the Secretary General of the Nobel Committee in Stockholm, Sweden was on the...
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Dr. Harvey Alter
Updated waiting room opens for guests of ICU patients
In January, the Clinical Center opened a renovated family waiting room for patients in the NIH Clinical Center's ICU.
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Dr. John I. Gallin cuts the ribbon with Heidi Grolig and Jerry Sachs.
NIH Clinical Center CEO, retired Army major general, speaks at NIH Veterans Day celebration
Clinical Center Nursing Department leadership, family and friends joined in celebrating the accomplishments and hard work of the Clinical Research Nursing Residency Program Cohort 4 Nov. 15.
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Town Hall provides NIH updates, open forum for staff
The NIH Medical Executive Committee hosted the annual Clinical Staff Town Hall Meeting Jan. 11 in the Clinical Center with Dr. Avi Nath, Clinical Director of the NINDS.
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The open forum of the town hall provided an opportunity for staff to learn about Building 10 updates and offer input.
Ribbons, bows and ‘ho, ho, hos’ spread holiday cheer
In December, there was plenty of holiday cheer for both patients and staff at NIH.
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Parking booth attendants decorated their facilities to show holiday cheer.
Soprano and Opera Singer Renee Fleming speaks at NIH on the intersection of music and science.
On May 13, the 2019 J. Edward Rall Cultural lecture (NIH only) brought world-renowned soprano Renee Fleming to the NIH Clinical Center to speak on Music and the Mind.
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From the House of Hope to the homeless: operating room staff bring warmth to the local community
With a needle, thread and desire to give back, members of the NIH Clinical Center operating room have repurposed surgical cloth into blankets for those experiencing homelessness in Montgomery County.
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Staff member using a sewing machine

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