NIDDK Director's Update Winter 2025
Director's Note
As the celebration of NIDDK’s 75th anniversary begins, we reflect on the remarkable progress the Institute has helped unlock over the years. Through fostering fundamental creative discoveries and innovative research strategies, we have learned how to apply them to our country’s most common, chronic, costly, and consequential diseases. Read more.
News Around NIDDK
- Celebrating 75 years of NIDDK: Award-winning extramural research
- NIDDK employees honored at annual awards ceremony
- NIH competition aims to find innovative solutions to problems faced by people with kidney diseases
- NIDDK launches study to tackle type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents
- NIDDK annual report published
Research Updates
- Acid build-up in the body is linked to metabolic alterations
- Behavioral intervention decreases how much pain affects daily activities in people with kidney failure receiving dialysis treatment
- Inhibiting immune cell growth may improve inflammation in people with rheumatoid arthritis
Health Information Updates
Commendations & Commencements
- Welcome
Reynolds, Senger - Congratulations
Habener, Mojsov, Hinshaw - Fond Farewell
Kranzfelder, Oliver, Yanovski - In Memoriam
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