CATALYTIC REACTIONS

In this issue, we are asking for your reactions in four areas: chemistry, Just Ask, Hot Methods Clinic, and scientists' retirement. Send your responses on these topics or your comments on other intramural research concerns to us via e-mail: catalyst@od1em1.od.nih.gov; fax: 402-4303; or mail: Building 1, Room 334.

1) We are working on an article about chemists at NIH. What role do you see for chemists in today's biomedical research environment? How do you think NIH in general has treated the chemistry profession?





2) In our new "Just Ask" column (see page 3), we are trying to find answers to scientists' questions concerning intramural research. What specific issues or problems would you like us to tackle?





3) What suggestions or comments do you have about the dideoxy fingerprinting technique featured in this issue's Hot Methods Clinic? What methods would you like to see covered in the future?





4) In a future issue, we plan to address the topic of scientists' retirement. When do you think scientists should retire? Do you think there should be a mandatory retirement age or a mandatory productivity level

In Future Issues. . .

  • Chemistry at NIH, A Dying Art?

  • Alternative Medicine's Intramural Foray

  • Hot Methods: DNA, All Strung Out

  • Retirement, When Should Scientists Call It Quits?

CREDITS

The NIH Catalyst is published bi-monthly for and by the intramural scientists at NIH.
Address correspondence to Building 1, Room 334, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Ph: (301) 402-1449; e-mail: catalyst@od1em1.od.nih.gov

PUBLISHER
Michael Gottesman
Deputy Director for Intramural Research, OD

EDITOR
Lance Liotta
Chief, Laboratory of Pathology, NCI

DEPUTY EDITOR
John I. Gallin,
Director, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, and Associate Director for Clinical Research

SCIENTIFIC EDITOR
Celia Hooper

MANAGING EDITOR
Rebecca Kolberg

COPY EDITOR
Cynthia Allen

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Lorna Heartley

INTERN
Jennifer M. King

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Jorge Carrasquillo, CC
David Davies, NIDDK
Michael Fordis, OD, OE
Dale Graham, DCRT
Hynda Kleinman, NIDR
Elise Kohn, NCI
Susan Leitman, CC
Bernard Moss, NIAID
Michael Rogawski, NINDS
Joan Schwartz, NINDS
Gisela Storz, NICHD

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