Rare Disease Day at NIH will be held virtually on Monday, March 1, 2021, from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST. This year’s event will feature interactive panel discussions, rare stories through TED-style talks and more. The event is free and open to the public, including patients, patient advocates, health care providers, researchers, trainees, students,
The National Academies will host a first committee meeting on Effectiveness of Non-Vaccine Influenza Control Measures on March 2-5, 2021 in virtual format. The event supports the Health and Medicine Division's Public Health Interventions and Countermeasures for Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response project. The global response to COVID-19 has pushed the boundaries
A virtual presentation on "RNA Viruses: How They Do What They Do" will be held on March 2, 2021 as part of the 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series. The 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series, which is jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, will begin January 12 and includes the presentation of patients, pathology, diagnosis and therapy in
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will host a COVID Seminar Series event on March 2: "Hindsight is 2020". The Community Science and Technology Seminar Series was launched to help the general public better understand and explore how science transforms our world. During this inaugural COVID-19 seminar series talk, Dr. Steven Wiley will discuss the differences
The National Academies will host an expert discussion on Identifying and Accounting for Vulnerabilities in U.S. Chemical Weapons Detection, Identification, and Tracing Capabilities on March 4, 2021. The meeting is open to the public in virtual format and is part of a larger 2-day meeting of the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. The Chemical
The National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Scientific Interest Group will host a webcast on Integrating Inflammation and Coagulation in COVID-19 on March 4, 2021. About the Speaker Yogen Kanthi, M.D., NHLBI Lasker Scholar, NIH Speaker Yogen Kanthi is a cardiologist and clinical vascular medicine specialist. His laboratory aims to understand how inflammation and coagulation contribute
The 2021 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) will be held March 6-10, 2021 in a virtual format. The synergy of basic science and clinical investigation has been a major contributor to the success of the meeting. CROI has facilitated the presentation of important discoveries in the field, thereby accelerating progress in HIV and
Quantum Science Concepts in Enhancing Sensing and Imaging Technologies: Applications for Biology—A Workshop will be held March 8-10, 2021 via virtual format. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is organizing this workshop on the research and development needs to advance biological applications of quantum-enabled sensing and imaging technologies. This event is open to
The Transportation Research Board will host a Visualizing Effects of COVID-19 on Transportation: A One-Year Retrospective webinar on March 8, 2021 that will delve into the pandemic’s effect on transportation. Presenters will discuss visualizations of where these impacts have been especially notable, including the drastic reduction in road and air traffic and in public transit
