News, Events, and Updates

NLM Names Acting Director and Acting Chief, Information Engineering Branch for NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information

Kim Pruitt, Ph.D., has been named Acting Director for the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). In this role, Dr. Pruitt will oversee the development and deployment of advanced computational solutions aimed to meet life and health science information needs and facilitate open science and scholarship through a growing array of data, literature, and other information offerings and services made available by NLM.

NLM Announces 2023 Lindberg-King Lecture

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will host the annual Lindberg-King Lecture on Friday, December 8, 2023, via NIH Videocast. This online event is free, open to the public, and co-sponsored by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine, National Library of Medicine, and American Medical Informatics Association.

NLM Selects Dr. Richard H. Scheuermann as Scientific Director for the National Library of Medicine

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has named Richard H. Scheuermann, PhD, as NLM’s new Scientific Director following a nationwide search. He is expected to begin his role as NLM Scientific Director on September 10, 2023.

Update on Access to Coronavirus-related Articles in PubMed Central (PMC) COVID-19 Collection After End of Public Health Emergency

Changes made to address the expiration of article-level license terms following the end of the public health emergency.

NLM Senior Investigator Zhiyong Lu, PhD, Elected as the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics 2023 Class of Academy Fellows

Zhiyong Lu, PhD, FACMI, Senior Investigator in the Computational Biology Branch of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Intramural Research Program, has been elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).

2023-2024 NLM Associate Fellows Announcement

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce its 2023-2024 class of Associate Fellows. NLM Associate Fellows will begin a robust educational and leadership program offering a variety of activities including formal lectures, presentations, projects in operations, research and development, policy, and data analysis.

NLM Welcomes Applications to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2024

The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to support research in the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine.

Jerry Sheehan, Deputy Director of Policy and External Affairs at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Departs for a New Position at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Jerry Sheehan, Deputy Director of Policy and External Affairs is leaving NLM to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Mr. Sheehan has been appointed as OECD’s new Director of Science, Technology and Innovation.

NLM Announces 2023 History Talks

NLM is pleased to announce the 2023 History Talks. All talks are free, available via live stream globally, and archived by NIH VideoCasting.

NLM Announces 2023 Michael E. DeBakey Fellows in the History of Medicine

Following its May 18, 2022 call for applications to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, NLM is pleased to announce its 2023 DeBakey Fellows.

Wei Ma Selected to Serve as Acting Director, Office of Computer and Communication Systems, National Library of Medicine

Ms. Ma is expected to assume the role in January 2023 as Ivor D’Souza assumes the role of Acting Director for the NIH Center for Information Technology.

Michael Huerta, PhD, Named Acting Deputy Director for Operations and Innovation at NLM

Michael Huerta, PhD, has been named Acting Deputy Director for Operations and Innovation at NLM. In this new role, Dr. Huerta will provide administrative oversight for the overall NLM research portfolio, serve as NLM’s Chief Diversity Officer, and provide senior executive support to NLM’s Division and Office Directors.

NLM’s Eugene V. Koonin, PhD, Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Eugene V. Koonin, PhD, senior investigator in the Computational Biology Branch of the NLM Intramural Research Program, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). The announcement was made today as part of NAM’s annual meeting.

NLM Invests $8 Million to Develop Diverse Biomedical Informatics, Data Science Training Programs

NLM is issuing grants to 12 institutions to support short-term biomedical informatics and data science training programs. NLM will issue these awards on an annual basis ($1.6 million each year) for five years, totaling an investment of $8 million to develop programs that prepare students for biomedical informatics and data science graduate studies and research careers.

Stephen Sherry, PhD, Selected as Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information at NLM, and NLM Associate Director for Scientific Data Resources

Dr. Sherry will oversee the development and deployment of advanced computational solutions aimed to meet life and health science information needs and facilitate open science and scholarship through a growing array of data, literature, and other information offerings and services made available by NLM.

NLM and AAHSL Announce 2022/2023 Leadership Fellows and Mentors

NLM and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) are pleased to announce the members of the 2022/2023 class of the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program.

NLM Reading Room to Reopen by Appointment on October 3, 2022

NLM will resume Reading Room operations on October 3, 2022. Due to renovations taking place in the NLM building, as well as ongoing COVID-19 considerations, NLM Reading Room services will have several changes from the services provided prior to the pandemic.

NLM Collaborates with Publishers to Make Monkeypox-related Literature Immediately Accessible

As part of ongoing efforts to leverage information resources to accelerate discovery around monkeypox, NLM is working with publishers to make monkeypox-related publications freely and immediately accessible to the public.

Expediting Access to Results of Federally Funded Research

NLM stands ready to support NIH’s implementation of updated policy guidance issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy through NLM’s PubMed Central and other relevant data repositories.

NLM to Host Data, Health, and the Digital Humanities: Shared Horizons II

A series of all-virtual programs and a scholarly book supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through a grant awarded to Virginia Tech, all collaborative outcomes of the NLM/NEH partnership to collaborate on research, education, and career initiatives.

NLM Leverages Its Information Resources to Improve Access to Monkeypox-related Literature and Research

NLM is working to accelerate the global monkeypox response through initiatives that expand access to scientific literature, sequence data, clinical trial information, and consumer health information.

Amanda J. Wilson appointed as NLM Deputy Associate Director for Library Operations

Effective July 31, 2022, Amanda J. Wilson, MSLS, has been appointed NLM Deputy Associate Director for Library Operations.

NLM Announces 2022 Lindberg-King Lecture & Scientific Symposium

On Thursday, September 1, 2022, NLM will host a day long virtual scientific symposium, "Science, Society, and the Legacy of Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D."

NLM welcomes 2022-2023 Associate Fellows

Starting July, NLM Associate Fellows will begin a robust educational and leadership program offering myriad activities including formal lectures, presentations, projects in operations, research and development, policy, and data analysis. The 2022-2023 fellowship year will be conducted remotely.

Explore Complete Sequence of a Human Genome Through NLM’s Open Access Resources and Tools

Scientists, researchers, and others interested in exploring the first complete sequence of a human genome, known as T2T-CHM13, can now access and analyze this assembly through NLM's open access data, tools, and resources.

National Library of Medicine Awards Nearly $58 Million to Advance a Data-Driven Research Workforce

Over the next five years, the NLM will award nearly $58 million to support biomedical informatics and data science programs at 18 institutions. NLM will distribute this funding on an annual basis, granting a total of $11.5 million each year.

NLM Welcomes Applications to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2023

Applications are open for the Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, which provides selected individuals with up to $10,000 each to support research in the NLM historical collections.

NLM Introduces New Tool in Support of Ongoing Pandemic Response

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) launched this week the SARS-CoV-2 Variants Overview interactive web resource to support the identification of emerging variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This free, open access tool provides the public health community with valuable information needed to guide COVID-19 pandemic research and response efforts.

NLM Collaboration Improves Standards for Reporting Clinical Genomics Variants

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have released a set of standard transcripts for 99% of human protein coding genes and 99.8% of genes of clinical relevance. This set, part of the Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) collection, harmonizes transcript and protein sets produced by this joint genome annotation effort.

NLM Continues to Take Action to Support COVID-19 Sequence Data Information Needs

During the COVID-19 pandemic, NLM responded swiftly to growing demand for relevant data and information, leveraging its data infrastructure for scientific and public health purposes, and forging new partnerships to provide the data and information needed to guide research and response efforts.

NLM Announces a Research Education Program (R25) Funding Opportunity to Support Short-Term Research Experiences in Bioinformatics and Data Science and Enhance Diversity

NLM is pleased to announce RFA-LM-22-001, “Short-Term Research Education Experiences to Attract Talented Students to Biomedical Informatics/Data Science Careers and Enhance Diversity (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).”

PubMed Central Website has a Fresh Look

NLM is pleased to announce an update to the user interface of its PubMed Central (PMC) digital archive—a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles. This is the first step in an ongoing modernization effort.

NLM Classification Updated

NLM Announces 2022 Michael E. DeBakey Fellows in the History of Medicine

Following its call for applications to the NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, NLM is pleased to announce its 2022 DeBakey Fellows.

NLM Announces 2022 History Talks

NLM announces its 2022 History Talks.

Is Misinformation the Problem? Re-examining the Infodemic

Join for the 2023 NLM Science, Technology, and Society Lecture.

Data Communities: Room for Everyone, Roles for Librarians

Amanda K. Rinehart, MLIS, MS, of The Ohio State University will deliver the 2022 Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture.

Human-centered AI Approaches for Individualized Self-management Regimens

Dr. Noémie Elhadad of Columbia University will present the 2022 Ada Lovelace Computational Health Lecture on "Human-centered AI Approaches for Individualized Self-management Regimens."

Lindberg-King Lecture and Scientific Symposium: Science, Society, and the Legacy of Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D.

On Thursday, September 1, 2022, NLM will host a day long virtual scientific symposium, "Science, Society, and the Legacy of Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D."

Data Curation Network Seminar Series: Introduction to Data Curation & Services for Researchers

The NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, in partnership NLM, is organizing an event series led by the Data Curation Network.

NLM Science, Technology, and Society Lecture | Taking on Big Tech: New Paradigms for New Possibilities

This lecture, part of the NLM Science, Technology, and Society Lecture Series, will look at emerging work that explores the impact of commercial technologies on the public.