April 21, 2020 Andrew Griffith steps down after 11 years as the NIDCD scientific director Thomas Friedman to serve as acting scientific director Following 22 years of dedicated service to the intramural research program of the National Institutes of Health, Andrew J. Griffith, M.D., Ph.D., will step down in the late spring to take an academic leadership role at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. An esteemed geneticist and otolaryngologist–head and neck surgeon, Griffith has spent two decades as a principal investigator at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, during which he led the NIDCD intramural program as the scientific director for 11 years. Thomas B. Friedman, Ph.D., an NIDCD principal investigator who leads studies on molecular and human genetics, will serve as acting scientific director until a permanent scientific director is named. Read more » Health Information Hearing, ear infections, etc. Balance Taste and smell Voice, speech, and language Popular Topics Do you need a hearing test? Ear infections Tinnitus Stuttering NIDCD now offers an easy way for you to get trusted, up-to-date content for your website. Learn more about content syndication >> The NIDCD, part of the National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts research and research training on the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language and provides health information, based upon scientific discovery, to the public. For more information about NIDCD programs, see our website at www.nidcd.nih.gov. NIH...Turning Discovery Into Health® U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)  National Institutes of Health (NIH)

 

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