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Indepth with new NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli, M.D.

The National Institutes of Health welcomed its 17th director, Monica Bertagnolli. A set of different challenges comes with operating the health research wing.

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The government's premier tech-transfer group, the Federal Lab Consortium celebrates 50 years in business

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A new potential way for federal scientists to get some guidance in their careers

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This Rocky has been knocking-out cancer for decades, using statistics

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The National Cancer Institute makes a run at improving results for the poor

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Making Government More Efficient Through Modernization

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How the cloud is letting the National Cancer Institute take the IT burden off its mission areas

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Air Force will no longer shoot down Facebook foes

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Pediatric oncologist's work on NF1 condition earns Sammies nod

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Science, data, technology helped combat the pandemic. They can help long after

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, chemotherapy is administered to a cancer patient via intravenous drip in Durham, N.C. In a study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and results published online Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, by the New England Journal of Medicine, a gene-activity test that was used to gauge early-stage breast cancer patient's risk accurately identified a group of women whose cancers are so likely to respond to hormone-blocking drugs that adding chemo would do little if any good while exposing them to side effects and other health risks. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

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Fighting cancer during a pandemic

FILE - This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Health authorities are preparing for a possible pandemic as they work to contain a respiratory illness in China that's caused by a new virus. Governments are working to contain the virus by limiting travel, isolating sick people and keeping travelers returning from the affected region under quarantine to watch for symptoms. (CDC via AP, File)

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Pandemic Phase II: The Reckoning

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$4 million kickback scheme gets former defense contractor 42-month prison sentence

Christie Canaria is the Small Business Innovation Research program director at the National Cancer Institute and a finalist for the Women in Technology leadership award.

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National Cancer Institute brings diversity of thought, people to help small business innovators

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Research into leukemia drug makes National Cancer Institute doc a Sammies finalist

Democratic Party of Hawaii staff tabulate presidential primary ballots in Honolulu on Friday, May 22, 2020. The Democratic Party of Hawaii is scheduled Saturday to release the results of its party-run presidential primary which was delayed by more than a month due the coronavirus pandemic. The party expected most members to vote by mail and some to cast ballots at about 20 in-person polling sites. But concerns about the virus forced the party to cancel in-person voting and allow only mail ballots. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

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USPS lays out suggestions on vote-by-mail services for local governments

Marston Linehan SAMMIES finalist

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Breakthroughs in fighting kidney cancer earned this doctor a SAMMIES nomination

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Trump's budget request targets large backlog of asylum cases

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The 10 CIO interviews that were most popular in 2018

Adriane Burton, (left), chief information officer at the Health Resources and Services Administration, won AFFIRM’s Leadership Award for Service to the Citizen and the Country. She celebrated with Onelia Codrington, (second to left), founder and CEO of Performance Value Management and AFFIRM board member; Pamela McCauley, (second to right) industrial engineer and professor at the National Science Foundation; and Luwanda Jones, (right) interim deputy CIO at the Veteran Affairs Department and an AFFIRM board member.

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PHOTOS: Federal information management, IT policy group awards year's leaders

Jeff Shilling, acting CIO for the National Cancer Institute

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National Cancer Institute pursues managed services for printing, cellphone needs

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NCI develops a model for the future of scientific computing