Clinical Center News
July / August 2024
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
Healing through Music
To celebrate Black History Month, the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Advisory Committee (DEIAAC) and the Office of Communications & Media Relations' Music in the Atrium series joined forces to present a special performance featuring the vibrant music of Howard University's Music Department. Full Story
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
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
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
Clinical Center launches new wellness initiative
The new program, called the Clinical Center Wellness Committee, seeks to elevate awareness of existing wellbeing opportunities and to leverage those programs more effectively.
Flu shots provided at NIH until Nov. 4
The NIH Clinical Center opened its annual Flu clinic for staff with off-campus locations listed at foiltheflu.nih.gov.
Levine visits NIH for briefing and Pride event
Admiral Rachel L. Levine visited the NIH Clinical Center in June.
Art project in the Clinical Center focuses on overdose crisis
An art project in the Clinical Center helps family members process loss.
Gubbi honored as Distinguished Clinical Teacher
NIH Clinical Fellows select Dr. Sriram Gubbi for the 2022 Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award.
Hospital and NIH Blood Bank thankful for dedicated blood donors
Dedicated blood donors help ensure there are enough blood products to support patients receiving treatments at the hospital.
Virtual reality goes to the patient room
For many patients, one of the most difficult parts of their protocol is simply staying in a hospital. It is not blood draws or testing, but the prolonged hospital stay.
Hospital electronic medical record validated in 2018 as HIMSS Analytics: Stage 7 certification
In 2018, the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics re-certified the NIH Clinical Center’s electronic health record, known as Clinical Records and Information System...
NIH fights the Flu
The NIH Office of Research Services and the Clinical Center provided free flu shots from Oct. 1 through Nov. 9 to staff who had a valid NIH identification badge.
Join a study at NIH
For more information on trials, or to learn about other available opportunities to participate in research studies, call the NIH Clinical Center Office of Patient Recruitment...
Join a study at NIH
For more information on trials listed below, or to learn about other available opportunities to participate in research studies, call the NIH Clinical Center Office of Patient Recruitment...
NIH Director's Awards honor 16 Clinical Center employees
The NIH Director's Award Ceremony celebrated 770 staff members across the 27 institutes for superior performance related to fulfilling the mission of the NIH.
NIH researcher recounts pursuing a treatment for childhood tumors
In December 2021, Dr. Brigitte Widemann, Chief of the Pediatric Branch for the National Cancer Institute, presented the Astute Clinician Lecture, Advancing Therapies for Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1): Lessons Learned from Every Patient.
Building for all
Cranes and fresh asphalt are appearing around the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center as the NIH prepares for a bout of construction on campus.
Diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility at the Clinical Center
The NIH Clinical Center has developed a comprehensive program to combat racism and reduce disparities across its workforce.
Clinical Center staff take home 2021 NIH Director’s awards
The pandemic isn’t over, but some of the hard work in getting us closer to that goal has been recognized by the NIH Director.
Physical Therapists focus on preventing falls
The Physical Therapy (PT) Section of the NIH Clinical Center’s Rehabilitation Medicine Department wants you to stay on your feet.
New pharmacy opens later this year
Clinical Center CEO, Dr. James Gilman tours the new permanent pharmacy facilities under construction in the hospital
NIH Clinical Center personnel updates
Dr. Thomas Burklow has joined the NIH to lead the Medical Research Scholars Program, a year-long program that competitively selects about 40 medical, dental and veterinary students...
Going above and beyond: learning from lectures, mentors
The 2018 NIH Distinguished Clinical Teaching Award was presented Sept. 5 to Dr. Kelly Stone from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
NIH clinical trials need you – HIV research study, brain injury study and others now recruiting
For more information on trials listed below, or to learn about other available opportunities to participate in research studies, call the NIH Clinical Center Office of Patient Recruitment...
NIH scientists discover genetic cause of rare allergy to vibration
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have identified a genetic mutation responsible for a rare form of inherited hives induced by vibration.
Department of Transfusion Medicine improves safety of platelet transfusions
On Jan. 14, 2016, the Clinical Center Department of Transfusion Medicine prepared the first pathogen reduced apheresis platelets at NIH and transfused them to a patient in the Intensive Care Unit.
Rare Disease Day features patients' voices, international collaboration
On Feb. 29, Leap Day, the Clinical Center and the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) hosted the 2016 Rare Disease Day at NIH.
