News From NINDS
New Name, Responsibilities for NINCDS.
—The National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke has now become the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), with the creation of a new institute to oversee federal research on communicative disorders.
Dr Murray Goldstein, NINDS director, has named deputy director Dr Roger J. Porter to oversee the smooth transfer of responsibilities for studies in hearing loss and communicative disorders to the new National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders (NIDCD).
Dr Jay Moskowitz, associate director for science policy and legislation for the National Institutes of Health, has been appointed acting director of the new institute. Dr Moskowitz will coordinate the search for a permanent director while managing the NIDCD staff currently being assembled.
Information about specific changes in NINDS grant management responsibilities will be available at a later date.
NINDS Announces New Career Development Award Recipients.
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