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

NCI investigator earns 2019 Distinguished Clinical Teaching Award for commitment to training clinical investigators and contribution to medical education
The 2019 NIH Distinguished Clinical Teaching Award was presented June 12 to Dr. Marijo Bilusic for his commitment to training clinical investigators at the NIH and his overall contribution to...
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Dr. Marijo Bilusic
First-in-human gene therapy launches with pediatric patient with rare disease
In May, a ten-year-old girl named JoJo received a gene therapy for an extremely rare neurogenerative disease called GM1 gangliosidosis.
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Pediatric patient ten-year-old JoJo with Dr. Cynthia Tifft
Lost in the laundry: a patient's stuffed animal lamb goes missing in action
Pants? Check. Shirts? Check. Stuffed animal Lamb? Check.
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Kayden Reinke, at the age of 2, holding Lammie
Patient proposal pays tribute to the place that gave her a 'second chance at life'
On May 9, after completing her outpatient appointment, patient Marissa Amuso walked out to the common area in Building 10 to find her boyfriend Branden Bolivar on one knee asking for her hand...
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Branden Bolivar proposes to Marissa Amuso, a patient, May 9 at the NIH Clinical Center
Patient celebrates 50th anniversary of open heart surgery at Building 10
Former Clinical Center patient Tom Kaminski (center) returned "home" to the NIH in June in celebration of his successful open heart surgery five decades ago in Building 10.
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Tom Kaminski with Dr. Sherman Souther
First randomized, controlled study finds ultra-processed diet leads to weight gain
Studies throughout the world have shown associations between processed food and negative outcomes.
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The metabolic kitchen staff creating precisely measured ultra-processed and unprocessed meals for study participants

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