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Inside This Issue:

1 - Postdoc Appreciation/
2009 Diabetes Symp

2 - Nossal Winners -
DDK Brimming with Pride

3 - Upcoming Events/
Announcements

4 - FARE Winners/
PhD Comics/
Announcments

The Fellows Advisory Board (FAB) in collaboration with the NIDDK Fellowship Office has started a monthly newsletter to announce events and news.  If you would like to help write articles for the newsletter or have any questions or comments regarding the newsletter or FAB, please contact:
Editor-in-Chief:                    Anna Burkart  burkarta@mail.nih.gov
Photography and Layout Editor:                               Nicholas Noinaj  noinajn@niddk.nih.gov

NIDDK Office of Fellow Recruitment and Career Development office
Bldg 12A, Rm. 3011.            301-451-3640 (voice)
301-402-7461 (fax)
fellowships@intra.niddk.nih.gov (e-mail)
fellowshipoffice.niddk.nih.gov
Staff Members:                             Louis Simchowitz, M.D., M.B.A.
Director
Kala Viswanathan                Program Specialist
Lorraine Moore                     Program Assistant

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2010 NIDDK FARE Award Winners

Photo of FARE winners.
(Winners of the 2010 FARE Awards from NIDDK pose with Dr. Michael Gottesman, Deputy Director for Intramural Research, NIH, at the NIH Research Festival in October.)


Fun! Fun! Fun! Enroll in the Buddy System

The NIDDK Fellowship Office is looking for Buddy Volunteers to help orient New Foreign Fellows from their own country. If you are interested, please contact Lorraine Moore at: lorrainem@intra.niddk.nih.gov.


FelCom Update

The Informer would like to congratulate Chaya Pooput (NIDDK/LBC), who was elected as the new Basic Science Co-Chair.


Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS)

Please mark your calendars for the WALS Lecture on December 9, 2009 that will be hosted by NIDDK. Several of our fellows will be able to have lunch with the speaker. Please email kvish@niddk.nih.gov, if fellows are interested in escorting or having lunch with the speaker.

The first one will be on December 9, 2009 by Dr. Gerard Darsenty, M.D., Ph.D., the Professor and Chair of Genetics and Development from Columbia University Medical Center. The title of his talk will be “The Novel Physiology of Bone.”


PhD Comics

PhD comic - The economy crisis takes its toll.

Source: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php

 

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