{"id":133610,"date":"2022-01-05T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/biomedical-research-leads-sciences-2021-breakthroughs"},"modified":"2022-01-05T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:22:30","slug":"biomedical-research-leads-sciences-2021-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/biomedical-research-leads-sciences-2021-breakthroughs","title":{"rendered":"Biomedical Research Leads Science\u2019s 2021 Breakthroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biomedical-research-leads-sciences-2021-breakthroughs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi everyone, I\u2019m Larry Tabak. I\u2019ve served as NIH\u2019s Principal Deputy Director for over 11 years, and I will be the acting NIH director until a new permanent director is named. In my new role, my day-to-day responsibilities will certainly increase, but I promise to carve out time to blog about some of the latest research progress on COVID-19 and any other areas of science that catch my eye.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also invited the directors of NIH\u2019s Institutes and Centers (ICs) to join me in the blogosphere and write about some of the cool science in their research portfolios. I will publish a couple of posts to start, then turn the blog over to our first IC director. From there, I envision alternating between posts from me and from various IC directors. That way, we\u2019ll cover a broad array of NIH science and the tremendous opportunities now being pursued in biomedical research.<\/p>\n<p>Since I\u2019m up first, let\u2019s start where the NIH Director\u2019s Blog usually begins each year: by taking a look back at <em>Science<\/em>\u2019s Breakthroughs of 2021. The breakthroughs were formally announced in December near the height of the holiday bustle. In case you missed the announcement, the biomedical sciences accounted for six of the journal <em>Science<\/em>\u2019s 10 breakthroughs. Here, I\u2019ll focus on four biomedical breakthroughs, the ones that NIH has played some role in advancing, starting with <em>Science<\/em>\u2019s editorial and People\u2019s Choice top-prize winner:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I\u2019m Larry Tabak. I\u2019ve served as NIH\u2019s Principal Deputy Director for over 11 years, and I will be the acting NIH director until a new permanent director is named. In my new role, my day-to-day responsibilities will certainly increase, but I promise to carve out time to blog about some of the latest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}