New Directors at NIH
DOI: 10.1063/1.4796763
Roderic Pettigrew has been tapped as the first permanent director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the newest addition to the National Institutes of Health (see Physics Today, September 2001, page 25 ).
Known for his work on dynamic, three-dimensional imaging of the heart, Pettigrew holds an MD from the University of Miami and a PhD in applied radiation physics from MIT. He will move to NIBIB at the end of the summer from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he heads the Emory Center for Magnetic Resonance Research.
More than two years after Harold Varmus stepped down, NIH’s top job has also been filled: On 20 May, Elias Zerhouni of Johns Hopkins University took the reins from acting director Ruth Kirschstein.
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