NLM General Announcements

The Staff Scientist role in SeqPlus is a pivotal subject matter expert for NCBI Datasets, with a comprehensive understanding of the data provided by NCBI Datasets. This position serves as an advocate for biologists and bioinformaticians, ensuring that user needs are met efficiently. The individual engages with users professionally, applying advanced problem-solving skills to help them access and utilize data effectively.

NLM/NCBI/IEB is seeking a motivated and skilled candidate to handle the processing of submissions to NCBI’s GenBank and set priorities for enhancing the submission process. The GenBank Genomes Curator will review and process incoming data submissions, interact with data submitters and genomic data users, and provide help desk support. The role involves receiving, processing, and maintaining genetic sequence data from genomes and chromosomes, as well as analyzing sequence data and collaborating with researchers to prepare data for public release.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) seeks early and second career librarians within five years of graduation interested in advancing equitable and innovative futures for biomedical libraries to participate in a one-year fellowship that fosters the development of librarians seeking to lead in medical or health sciences libraries.

The National Library of Medicine, located in Montgomery County, Maryland, is looking for a specialist with expertise in library procedures, system analysis, and bibliographic standards to solve technical processing problems, improve efficiency, and develop new techniques. This position is a merit promotion.

The National Library of Medicine, located in Montgomery County, Maryland, is looking for a specialist with expertise in library procedures, system analysis, and bibliographic standards to solve technical processing problems, improve efficiency, and develop new techniques. This position is open to the public.

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This position will contribute to development and maintenance of solutions to support continued development of NCBI’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) – the world premier archive of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data and is a part of international collaboration that includes archives in Europe and Japan. SRA makes biological sequence data derived from NGS available to the research community to enhance reproducibility and allow for new discoveries by analyzing and comparing data sets.

This position directs program activities to optimize the value of the ClinicalTrials.gov resource to stakeholders, while ensuring it meets policy and legal requirements. The Program Head manages over 40 scientific, technical, and administrative staff, is active in conducting and publishing research, participates in numerous scientific and policy activities and collaborations, and serves in an external advisory capacity.

The position of Staff Scientist 1 is located in the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Medical Genetics & Human Variation Development Team (MGVDT). The MGV program archives and disseminates data on human genetic variation and the associated health information for use by researchers and healthcare providers. The Staff Scientist 1 will serve as the Technical Team Lead for the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) Submission System team.

The position provides insight and advice on issues and trends related to health data standards usage and needs from federal and commercial arenas. The position assists in coordinating product and system changes in response to ongoing development in the area of health data standards; provides support and backup for production issues related to RxNorm, UMLS, SNOMED CT, and MeSH; and participates as needed in development teams to improve HDST products and services.

The Staff Scientist 1 will serve as the Technical Lead for NCBI RefSeq bioinformatics pipelines, including Foreign Contamination Screening pipelines and the Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (EGAP). NCBI’s bioinformatics pipelines serve the research and clinical community and drive new life sciences discoveries, with ongoing development on making the data more useful and easily accessible, taking full advantage of new technologies such as Cloud computing and embracing FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

Seeking an outstanding candidate to conserve library collections. This positions involves conservation of born-digital and physical collections, advancing automated indexing efforts by applying scientific vocabulary and/or metadata content, and management, preservation, and access to the NLM collections.

The position of Staff Scientist 1 is located in IEB’s Literature Development Team. This team is responsible for all Literature related databases and programs at the NCBI, including PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC) and the NCBI Bookshelf.

The IEB is looking for an outstanding candidate to work on NCBI’s ClinicalTrials.gov program, which makes information about clinical trials accessible to facilitate scientific research, advance public health, and inform the general public. This position is essential to ensuring the smooth day-to-day operations of the ClinicalTrials.gov database and meeting long-term program goals of providing complete and accurate information to meet stakeholder needs and objectives.

The Information Engineering Branch (IEB) is seeking multiple outstanding candidates at the Staff Scientist 1 level to support the scientific management of ClinicalTrials.gov, the largest publicly available clinical study registry and results database in the world. The ClinicalTrials.gov program makes information about clinical trials accessible to facilitate scientific research, advance public health, and inform the general public.

This position is in the Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS), Office of the Director (OD), National Library of Medicine (NLM), supporting the NLM Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO). The office is looking for an outstanding candidate with extensive experience in cybersecurity, vulnerability management, and adopting security best practices to safeguard NLM digital assets on premises and in the cloud. This lead IT specialist (INFOSEC) needs knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the specified duties efficiently and effectively in this job announcement. Candidates with IT, cybersecurity, or related degrees are preferred.

The Office of Administrative Management (OAM) is responsible for managing resources and services that maximize both human capital management and workforce planning on behalf of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM). The OAM also provides comprehensive management of administrative services including all or several of the following functions: budgetary and financial management services; purchasing, procurement, and contract administration; management and program analysis; facilities, property, safety, or space management to the NCBI staff.

This position supports the NLM Assistant Director for Policy Development and works across the NLM policy and legislation team with project tracking, reporting, research, and management.

The NCBI Taxonomy team, located in the Information Engineering Branch, is looking for an outstanding candidate with extensive experience in taxonomic database curation.

The position is located in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Information Engineering Branch (IEB).

NLM NCBI IEB is looking for an outstanding candidate with extensive experience in sequence data generation, curation, analysis, and management.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is recruiting a Chief of the Applied Clinical Informatics Branch (ACIB) in the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC). LHNCBC is a research and development organization within NIH that focuses on advancing the use of clinical (human) data for research by judicious application of data science, computational sciences, and biomedical informatics to support cutting-edge biomedical research. In 1968, Congress established LHNCBC to further biomedicine through innovations in computer and digital communications technology, data science research, and computer applications development.

Leaders from the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, descendants of the men who were treated unethically in the study, visit with NIH leadership in September 2023 to view contents of the physical collection before the release of the digitized collection.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM)’s newest online exhibition “Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy,” explores the history of physiognomy and its influence on contemporary artificial intelligence and computer science technologies that gather and interpret body data.

The NLM's Division of Library Operations (LO) is seeking experienced and talented Technical Information Specialists. LO collects and curates biomedical information and makes it available to a global audience. This announcement will be used to fill multiple positions to advance automated indexing efforts, coordinate serials cataloging and metadata management, preserve and manage NLM collection, and lead product teams related to consumer health, common data elements, and the library catalog.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is one of 27 Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health. NLM is a global leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science and the world’s largest biomedical library. NLM’s legislative mandate is to support the essential work of acquiring, organizing, preserving, and disseminating biomedical information. NLM provides public access to this information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The following position will be posted to USAJobs.gov from October 10, 2023 until October 20, 2023.

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. She steps into this role as NCBI’s most recent director, Stephen Sherry, Ph.D., transitions to a new role as NLM’s Acting Director following the retirement of Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D. on September 30.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is one of 27 Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health. NLM is a global leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science and the world’s largest biomedical library. NLM’s legislative mandate is to support the essential work of acquiring, organizing, preserving, and disseminating biomedical information. NLM provides public access to this information 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will host the annual Lindberg-King Lecture on Friday, December 8, 2023, via NIH Videocast.

Ada Lovelace Day, held every year on the second Tuesday of October, was created to celebrate one of the first woman computer programmers. It is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It aims to increase the roles of women within the STEM sectors and support women already working in STEM.

The IT Specialist (SYSADMIN/APPSW) candidate will be expected to: • Serve as the expert intermediary between the systems administration and application functions/teams in the Applications Branch (e.g., developers, networking team, infrastructure security team, infrastructure systems team). • Coordinate projects and activities, and manage the deployment, maintenance, and upgrade process of applications developed by different development groups and teams. • Work with software application developers to architect, configure, and troubleshoot application servers and the software running on the developed applications. • Oversee and ensure systems administration, patching, networking, and provisioning support of application servers within the OCCS applications platform. • Manage approximately 400 application servers in support of the NLM mission and ensure support for applications residing on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. • Direct and oversee provisioning and patching scripts for on-premises application servers and AWS Cloud. • Create, maintain, and administer automated testing frameworks that allow in-depth testing of User Interfaces, modules, and security of custom software applications across multiple programming languages and platforms. • Maintain the integrity, security, and availability of NOSQL databases and database-like technologies, and troubleshoot server issues, including tuning performance, isolate and fix application problems, and apply security patches. • Analyze and evaluate new systems engineering technologies, and develop and coordinate lifecycle development processes and tools to facilitate agile development methodologies. • Identify future-state objectives for the development environment, and provide guidance on best practices to maintain the development environments and support the rapid development and testing of web based solutions. • Provide analysis and guidance on program related information technology (IT) issues or problems where new analytical techniques must be developed to identify and evaluate findings. • Identify and maintain firewall rules needed to allow application communication, and create and maintain approximately 2500 firewall rules in support of application network communication.

This is a full-time leadership position defining technology strategy and priority by providing expert advice and consulting to assure coherence between evolving NIH FHIR projects and core FHIR specifications being developed in the broader biomedical informatics community (industry and academia). The Senior Research Scientist will be appointed to a position in the Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service (SBRBPAS). Candidates for this position must have outstanding expertise in health data standards, especially FHIR and its implementation in health software applications. Clinical/clinical research expertise, such as experience specialized in processing clinical/clinical research data, is a plus. Candidates should have experience in working in a biomedical research and development environment. Outstanding communication skills and a collaborative work style are critical.

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.

This is a full-time leadership position defining technology strategy and priority by providing expert advice and consulting to assure coherence between evolving NIH FHIR projects and core FHIR specifications being developed in the broader biomedical informatics community (industry and academia). The Senior Research Scientist will be appointed to a position in the Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service (SBRBPAS). Candidates for this position must have outstanding expertise in health data standards, especially FHIR and its implementation in health software applications.

Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan, NLM director, will be retiring from NLM and federal service on September 30, 2023.

NIH is seeking feedback on a proposed update to its mission statement. As the largest public funder of biomedical and behavioral research in the world, it is important that the mission statement accurately reflects NIH’s goal of turning scientific discoveries into better health for all. Review and submit your input by November 24, 2023.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) collaborated with publishers and scholarly societies to expand access to coronavirus-related journal articles in PubMed Central (PMC), a digital archive of peer-reviewed biomedical and life sciences literature. Through this collaboration, more than 50 publishers made more than 350,000 coronavirus-related articles accessible under various article-level license terms through the PMC COVID-19 Collection (previously the PMC COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Initiative). This collaboration made a significant collection of coronavirus-related information immediately accessible to researchers to accelerate discoveries about COVID-19.

Visit USAJOBS for additional opportunities at NLM, NIH, and throughout the federal government.

The NIH National Library of Medicine’s Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) is looking for a Deputy Director to share responsibility with the Director for overall program development, program evaluation, policy formulation, direction, and coordination of all LHNCBC activities. In addition, the Deputy Director will serve in a key leadership role in assisting the LHNCBC Director in overseeing the diverse scientific and technical staff.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), is seeking exceptional candidates for the position of Deputy Director, Operations and Innovation (DDOI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), NIH. The DDOI, NLM shares with the Director responsibility for NLM’s research, operations, and public services and ensures that health disparities research within NLM will advance DEIA goals by reducing health inequities. NIH is ​the ​foremost agency for funding biomedical research in the U.S., with a $47.5 billion budget supporting its mission to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to use that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. NLM is one of NIH’s 27 Institutes and Centers, with a workforce of approximately 690 Federal staff and 750 contractors and an annual budget of approximately $490 million. NLM’s organizational structure includes five major divisions and six office units, including a vibrant intramural research program and a national extramural research and training program. The DDOI, NLM brings extensive scientific achievement in biomedical informatics, operational experience in large research institutions, and expertise in innovation to guide the NLM towards excellence in service and research. Along with the Director, NLM, and co-equal with the NLM Deputy Director for Policy and External Affairs, The DDOI provides strategic leadership for NLM operations, maintains situational awareness, develops and implements strategic management models characterized by accountability and innovation. The NLM provides the world with vast biomedical literature resources and biomolecular data repositories that together serve millions of people every day.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is recruiting for Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) through the Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service (SBRBPAS) and Associate Director of NLM for Clinical Data Management. The candidate should have expertise in clinical data generation, management, and analysis as well as strong leadership capabilities to provide strategic vision and operational oversight to the Center.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking a Supervisory Bioinformatics Specialist

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is seeking a Data Center IT Specialist.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is one of 27 Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health. NLM is a global leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science and the world’s largest biomedical library. NLM’s legislative mandate is to support the essential work of acquiring, organizing, preserving, and disseminating biomedical information. NLM provides public access to this information 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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).

Download SNOMED CT International Edition releases and related international files from this page. Click on the file name to see more information and to download the release file. NLM distributes the SNOMED CT International Edition and derivatives to licensed individuals via the UMLS Terminology Services. Please see the Licensing page to learn more about licensing and how to register to obtain an Affiliate License.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the launch of the modernized ClinicalTrials.gov. on an updated platform that will accommodate growth and enhance efficiency. Informed by user feedback, the modernized website includes an updated look and feel that improves functionality for searching, viewing, and downloading information about clinical trials. The new look includes simple web components that improve navigation and make important information easier to find.

This position involves evaluating and data reporting on health information outreach, engagement, and training activities. It is located administratively within the Office of Engagement and Training (OET), Division of Library Operations (LO), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). OET fulfills NLM strategic goals to "Reach more people in more ways through enhanced dissemination and engagement" and "Build a workforce for data-driven research and health." Application Period: 06/12/2023 to 06/16/2023.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is recruiting for a Senior Advisor for Health Data Standards & Terminologies (HDST) to lead the Office of Health Data Standards and Terminologies (HDST) which is in the Division of Library Operations, one of the core components of the NLM. Application Period: 06/09/2023 to 07/30/2023.

These positions (involving conservation of born-digital and physical collections, advancing automated indexing efforts by applying scientific vocabulary and/or metadata content, and management, preservation, and access to NLM collections) are located in the Division of Library Operations (LO), in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Through teamwork NLM collects, preserves, makes available, and interprets one of the world's richest collections of historical material related to health and disease. Application period: 06/08/2023 to 06/12/2023

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A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Broad Institute developed an improved web-based system, LitVar 2.0, to help researchers and clinicians search for genetic variants and related information in the biomedical literature. A paper about this powerful LitVar 2.0 system was published in Nature Genetics.

Viroid-like cccRNA detection pipeline

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a global leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science research and the world’s largest biomedical library, is pleased to announce its 2023-2024 class of Associate Fellows.

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 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.

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit Data Center Facilities Management Specialist position.

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NLM-AnnouncesDaily announcement-only list of new and updated content on the NLM website, the NLM Technical Bulletin, Musings from the Mezzanine, NCBI Insights, and Circulating Now.

This set of tooling services brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems.

Join for the 2023 NLM Science, Technology, and Society Lecture taking place this Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. ET.

 The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. The position serves as the Deputy Director, NCBI, and as such, serves as the senior expert and consultant to NLM top management. NLM is one of the 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Visit USAJOBS for additional opportunities at NLM, NIH, and throughout the federal government.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) used computational modeling to uncover mutations in the human genome that likely influenced the evolution of human cognition. This groundbreaking research in human genomics could lead to a better understanding of human health and the discovery of novel treatments for complex brain disorders. The study was published in Science Advances.

Viroid-like cccRNA detection pipeline

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Information Engineering Branch (IEB) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1 to support the Medical Genetics and Human Variation (MGV) Program, which includes dbGaP, ClinVar, GTR, and dbSNP. NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Information Engineering Branch (IEB) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1 position. The position is in the IEB Sequence Enhancements, Tools, and Delivery Sequence Plus (SeqPlus) program, which includes eukaryotic, prokaryotic, and viral Reference Sequence (RefSeq) databases, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST), Conserved Domains Database (CDD), NCBI Pathogen Detection Pipeline, NCBI Datasets, and sequence visualization and analysis tools. NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the 2023 History Talks. All talks are free, available via live stream globally, and archived by NIH VideoCasting. We invite you to join this year’s History Talks:

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.

The NIH National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is looking for a seasoned professional to serve as the Director of its Information Resources Branch (IRB), leading teams to provide cloud computing, high performance computing, and scientific research applications for NLM, and the NIH-funded research community. 

The NIH Preprint Pilot has accelerated and expanded broad discovery of NIH-funded research results relating to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19. This finding comes from a new preprint authored by staff at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and made available in bioRxiv. A project of NLM, the NIH Preprint Pilot was launched to explore new approaches to increase the discoverability of NIH-supported research results and gain a better understanding of perceptions and practices regarding preprints.

Wei Ma has been selected to serve as Acting Director, Office of Computer and Communication Systems (OCCS) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and 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.

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. The position supports interdisciplinary research in the Computational Biology Branch (CBB). NLM is one of the 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit IT Specialist (CUSTSPT) position. 

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit Supervisory IT Specialist (APPSW) position. 

The Intramural Research Program (IRP) of National Library of Medicine (NLM) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1 to join the Computational Biology Branch of the NLM (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/jianglab) . NLM is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The Intramural Research Program (IRP) is looking for an outstanding candidate to work on applying computational tools to challenging problems in large-scale microbial genomic analysis.

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit Supervisory IT Specialist (INFOSEC) position. 

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.

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.

A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and collaborating academic research institutions have discovered new RNA bacteriophages, viruses that attack bacteria, advancing understanding of virus evolution. Findings were published in the journal Cell.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist I in the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) to support the scientific policy management of ClinicalTrials.gov, the largest publicly available clinical study registry and results database in the world. NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist I in the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) to lead an interdisciplinary team of results quality control reviewers and to ensure that the results review teams’ decisions and activities are in alignment with regulation and policy and in support of the mission and priorities of ClinicalTrials.gov, the largest publicly available clinical study registry and results database in the world. NLM is one of 27 Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit two (2) IT Specialist (SYSADMIN/APPSW) positions.

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.

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.

The National Library of Medicine (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 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.

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.

The position is in the Computational Health Research Branch (CHRB), which is a part of the Intramural Research Program (IRP). NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

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 stands ready to support NIH’s implementation of updated policy guidance issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) through NLM’s PubMed Central (PMC) and other relevant data repositories.PMC is NLM's free full-text archive of biomedical and life-sciences journal literature. PMC provides free public access to journal articles subject to the current NIH Public Access Policy, as well as policies of other major HHS agencies (AHRQ, CDC, FDA), and other Federal agencies. PMC also contributes to efforts to improve access to related data:  accepting small datasets published with articles and linking, where possible, to data in other widely used repositoriesNLM supports public accountability and open science, and will work with NIH and other federal agency partners to support their revised public access plans. NLM will also continue to work across the library, information science, and scholarly communications communities to develop innovative ways to support the updated policy and advance the effective stewardship of research data.At this time, NIH policy and PMC submission practices remain unchanged.  PMC will continue to accept and provide public access to journal literature consistent with current policy requirements.

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, MSLS, has been appointed Deputy Associate Director for Library Operations (LO), effective July 31, 2022. Ms. Wilson has held the position as Acting Deputy Associate Director since June 2021.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will host the Lindberg-King Lecture & Scientific Symposium: Science, Society, and the Legacy of Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D. on Thursday, September 1, 2022, via NIH Videocast. The Lindberg-King Lecture honors the legacy and contributions of former NLM Director, Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, and former NLM Deputy Director for Research and Education, Donald West King, MD.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a global leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science research and the world’s largest biomedical library, is pleased to announce its 2022-2023 class of Associate Fellows.

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is recruiting a Deputy Director/DeputyCIO. 

The National Library of Medicine (NLM)’s Bibliographic Services Division in the Division of Library Operations is recruiting two Supervisory Technical Information Specialists. These positions will serve as Section Heads and lead the areas of health data standards, terminology development and metadata application, systems development with a focus on automation, product and budgetary management, and staff development. NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit IT specialist (Network) position. 

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit Cybersecurity (InfoSec) position to support the NLM Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO).

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.

Over the next five years, the National Library of Medicine (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. Recipients will develop training programs to prepare pre and postdoctoral trainees for interdisciplinary scientific research careers. Through this investment, NLM is continuing to build a well-trained, data-driven research workforce for the future.  

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce applications are open to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine. The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides selected individuals with up to $10,000 each to support research in the historical collections of the NLM.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM)’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1 in the Computational Biology Branch (CBB) that will contribute to NCBI’s mission to conduct research on fundamental biomedical problems at the molecular level using mathematical and computational methods. NLM is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

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.

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.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) makes vast amounts of digital and print information and data available to the global research community to advance scientific discovery and improve public health. 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.

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports educational activities that encourage individuals, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research. As part of this program, 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).” This funding opportunity announcement seeks proposals from institutions that will create innovative educational programs and research experiences aimed at attracting talented undergraduate and master’s students to doctoral programs in biomedical informatics and data science. Proposals that aim to increase the diversity of the scientific workforce are encouraged.NLM will conduct a technical assistance webinar regarding RFA-LM-22-001 on Wednesday, April 13 at 11:00 a.m. ET. All prospective applicants are encouraged to participate.Applications are due Tuesday, May 31, 2022.  Read the full RFA for more information and instructions for applying.

The National Library of Medicine (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. PMC’s fresh look and feel is the first step in an ongoing effort to modernize PMC, create a more accessible user experience across NLM literature databases, and enhance the long-term stability of the PMC infrastructure.

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit two (2) IT Specialist Positions.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM’s) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting  a Staff Scientist 1. The position supports interdisciplinary research in the Computational Biology Branch (CBB), which is part of NLM’s Intramural Research Program NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Vacancy Announcement: Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) NLM Associate Director for Scientific Data Resources National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

The major focus of the 2022 winter edition was the evaluation of the 2022 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary for inclusion in the Classification index. Several additions and changes were made to the Index and Schedules based on this review. All main index headings are now linked to the 2022 vocabulary in the MeSH Browser. Additional minor updates were made to the Index and Schedules.

The NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking to recruit IT specialist (Network) position.

The position serves as the Chief of the Systems Technology Branch (STB) in the Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS). This is a second level supervisory position with responsibility for the performance of four sections within the branch.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces its 2022 History Talks. All talks are free, live-streamed globally, and archived by NIH VideoCasting.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1 with demonstrated expertise in bioinformatics methods development. The position is in the Computational Biology Branch (CBB), which is a part of the Intramural Research Program (IRP). NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

This position is located in the Division of Library Operations (DLO), National Library of Medicine. DLO selects, acquires, and catalogs biomedical publications; furnishes reference and document delivery services; prepares and publishes indexes, and other publications for the use by the biomedical community; administers national biomedical information retrieval services; supports clinical terminology and health data standards; and coordinates the Network of the National Library of Medicine.

Following its April 26, 2021 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 2022 DeBakey Fellows.

The National Institutes of Health is investing about $74.5 million over five years to advance data science, catalyze innovation and spur health discoveries across Africa.

Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD, Assistant Director for Policy Development at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), will be inducted as a fellow into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). In her role at NLM, Dr. Zayas Cabán leads policy and legislative activities to promote access to scientific data and information as well as more widespread use of health data standards.

The following position will be posted to USAJobs.gov from Monday, September 13, 2021 until Friday, September 17, 2021.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) are pleased to announce the members of the 2021/2022 class of the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program.

NLM is seeking a detailee to work as a policy analyst with the NLM Assistant Director for Policy Development. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. The position is in the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) and contributes to NCBI’s virus Reference Sequence (RefSeq) resources.

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. The position is in the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) and contributes to NCBI’s virus Reference Sequence (RefSeq) resources.

Microsoft Azure has joined the National Institutes of Health’s Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative as the newest cloud service provider to support biomedical research.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) seeks an outstanding Scientific Director to lead its Intramural Research Program (IRP).

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a leader in research in biomedical informatics and data science, and the world's largest biomedical library, is pleased to announce our 2021-2022 class of Associate Fellows.

Stephen F. Altschul, Ph.D. has received the appointment of Scientist Emeritus at the NIH. In this role, Dr. Altschul will continue to collaborate with scientists inside and outside of NIH, complete existing and joining new research projects, and write and review scientific journal articles. Dr. Altschul is the first NLM intramural investigator to receive this honor.

After 19 years of service, Hua-Chuan Sim, MD, Acting Director of NLM’s Extramural Programs (EP) is retiring from federal service on Friday, April 30. On May 1, 2021, Dr. Richard C. Palmer will assume the role of Acting Director, NLM Extramural Programs.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce applications are open to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine.

The National Library of Medicine has awarded five-year cooperative agreements to seven institutions selected to serve as Regional Medical Libraries (RMLs) and four institutions selected as National Coordinating Offices in the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM). The agreements begin May 1, 2021.

Teresa Przytycka, PhD, senior investigator in the Computational Biology Branch of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM’s) National Center for Biotechnology Information, has been selected as a 2021 Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

The following position will be posted from Monday, March 1, 2021 - Monday, March 15, 2021

Update from the NIH Director available at https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-stands-against-structural-racism-biomedical-research

The following position will be posted from Monday, March 1, 2021 - Wednesday, March 31/2021

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States, a new online exhibition.

NLM Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is pleased to announce the appointment of Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD, as NLM’s Assistant Director for Policy Development.

The 2021 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary was evaluated for inclusion in the Classification index. Several additions and changes were made to the Index and Schedules based on this review. All main index headings are now linked to the 2021 vocabulary in the MeSH Browser. Additional minor updates were made to the Index and Schedules.

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Milton Corn, M.D., FACP, FACMI, Deputy Director for Research and Education. Dr. Corn worked at NLM for more than 30 years. He died on Sunday, February 7, 2021.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces Making a World of Difference: Stories About Global Health, an online exhibition.

The following position will be posted from Wednesday, February 3, 2021 – Wednesday, March 5, 2021

We will begin evaluating applications on April 09, 2021. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Artificial Intelligence Simplifies Cervical Cancer Screening

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces Fifty Years Ago: The Darkening Day, a new online exhibition recognizing the 50th anniversary of The Darkening Day, an NLM exhibition on the health aspects of environmental pollution, which opened at the library in 1970 and was subsequently reviewed in the September 29, 1970, issue of the NIH Record, page 11.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Director, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, has named Valerie Florance, PhD, as Acting Scientific Director of NLM’s Intramural Research Program and Hua-Chuan Sim, MD, as Acting Director of NLM’s Extramural Programs — effective January 15, 2021.

The History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces its 2021 NLM History Talks. All talks are free, live-streamed globally, and subsequently archived by NIH VideoCasting.

Following its February 24, 2020, call for applications to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, the NLM is pleased to announce its 2021 DeBakey Fellows:

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and part of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) have renewed their partnership through 2024. The collaboration, originally established in 2012, aims to develop initiatives that explore the intersection of biomedical and humanities research.

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. The position supports interdisciplinary research in the Computational Biology Branch (CBB). NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

National Library of Medicine Director, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dianne Babski as Associate Director for Library Operations at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a position in the Senior Executive Service. This appointment became effective November 22, 2020. Ms. Babski has served as Acting Associate Director for Library Operations since March 1, 2020.

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. The position is in the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) and contributes to NCBI’s Reference Sequence (RefSeq) collection. NLM is one of the 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. The position supports interdisciplinary research in the Computational Biology Branch (CBB). NLM is one of the 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1 in the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) to contribute to NCBI’s human and mouse Reference Sequence (RefSeq) collection. NLM is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Beginning with the 2020 summer edition, the NLM Classification has a new look and feel. With this new design comes a new URL:  https://classification.nlm.nih.gov/  The old URL: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/class will automatically be redirected to the new one. The new site functions best in Chrome or Firefox.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health, a new NLM traveling exhibition with an online adaptation, guest curated by scholar Anne E. Parsons, PhD (University of North Carolina at Greensboro).

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is recruiting for a tenure-track or tenure-eligible investigator within its Intramural Research Program (IRP) in Bethesda, MD. The recruitment is part of a planned expansion of NLM’s intramural research in computational health sciences. The goal of this search is to identify candidates with the potential to develop a dynamic, innovative, and independent research program with a focus on clinical image processing (e.g., radiology, pathology, endoscopy).

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Licensees.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS Licensees.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) invites the public to provide input and help shape the continuing implementation of its strategic plan through 2027 by responding to this Request for Information (RFI).

John S. Brownstein, professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School and chief innovation officer of Boston Children’s Hospital, will deliver the 2020 Joseph Leiter National Library of Medicine (NLM)/Medical Library Association (MLA) Lecture, Tuesday, August 11 from 6:00 – 7:00 PM (EST) by videocast.

Press announcement available from https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-researchers-identify-key-genomic-features-could-differentiate-sars-cov-2-other-coronaviruses-cause-less-severe-disease

First phase on COVID-19 related preprints

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest biomedical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, is pleased to announce our 2020-2021 class of Associate Fellows.

National Library of Medicine Director, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, has named Stephen Sherry, PhD, as Acting Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) effective March 31, 2020.

Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 2:00-4:00pm ET via NIH Videocast: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=36347

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launched a joint effort to support the development of search engines for research that will help in the fight against COVID-19. The project was developed in response to the March 16 White House Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset.

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Patricia Flatley. Brennan, RN, Ph.D., Director, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health to its College of Fellows.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the National Institutes of Health is working on multiple fronts to aid in the COVID-19 response through new initiatives with the global publishing community and artificial intelligence researchers.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is honored to announce its acquisition of the papers of Louis W. Sullivan, MD, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). This is the first collection of papers from a former HHS Secretary, acquired by the NLM and will be part of the archival collections of the world's largest medical library and institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

National Library of Medicine Director, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, has named Dianne Babski as Acting Associate Director, Division of Library Operations (LO) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) effective March 1, 2020.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce applications are open to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, supporting research onsite at the NLM in its historical collections.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the launch of the new PubMed. The new, responsive design is mobile friendly and reflects NLM’s ongoing efforts to transform PubMed into a modern hub with a fast, reliable, and intuitive search that connects people to the world’s leading sources of biomedical information.

The 2020 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary was evaluated for inclusion in the Classification index. Several additions and changes were made to the Index and Schedules based on this review. All main index headings are now linked to the 2020 vocabulary in the MeSH Browser. A mini-systematic review of the W 775-867 Medicolegal Examination section was conducted. Additional minor updates were made to the Index and Schedules.

The History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces its 2020 NLM History Talks. All talks are free, open to the public, and held in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium, building 38A located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Lectures are also live-streamed globally and archived by NIH VideoCasting, which is made possible through support of the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Foundation.

NLM, through its GenBank® sequence database, is providing the biomedical community free and easy access to genome sequences from the novel coronavirus associated with the recent outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a global health emergency on January 30, 2020 and GenBank® continues to rapidly release data associated with this outbreak as it comes in and welcomes sequence data submissions as well. 

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the release of its first fully-digitized manuscript collections in NLM Digital Collections.

Following its April 9, 2019, call for applications to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, the NLM is pleased to announce its 2020 DeBakey Fellows:

Kim Pruitt, PhD, has been named the Chief of the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) at the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM’s) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

National Library of Medicine Associate Director for Library Operations Joyce Backus has announced the appointment of Margaret McGhee as Chief, Public Services Division. She will assume this role on December 9, 2019.

A group of researchers including the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM’s) Sameer Antani, PhD, staff scientist and acting branch chief for the Communications Science Branch, Zhiyun (Jaylene) Xue, PhD, staff scientist, and L. Rodney Long, MA, electronics engineer, from NLM’s Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications received the Distinguished Paper Award at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2019 Annual Symposium for its research paper titled, “Comparing Deep Learning Models for Multi-cell Classification in Liquid-based Cervical Cytology Images.”

Olivier Bodenreider, MD, PhD, FACMI, senior scientist and chief of the Cognitive Science Branch of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM’s) Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications was inducted into the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).

Eugene V. Koonin, Ph.D., senior investigator at the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM’s) National Center for Biotechnology Information, has been appointed an NIH Distinguished Investigator.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces the first fourteen (14) sites selected as part of Exhibitions Connect.

On November 17, National Library of Medicine (NLM) Senior Investigator Zhiyong Lu, PhD, FACMI, was inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), which is part of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Dr. Lu is an investigator in the NLM’s Intramural Research Program in the NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Two minute and twenty-four second video showing the sixth annual science day at NIH on October 10, 2019

Online exhibition opens October 15, 2019

Last week, National Library of Medicine Chief Health Data Standards Officer Clement J. McDonald, MD, was awarded the 2019 August M. Watanabe Life Sciences Champion of the Year Award for his impact on health IT and digital health in Indiana and abroad.

Investments in Medical Research at Five Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health

The NLM Classification, available online at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/class/, is updated two times a year.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces World Health Organization: Picturing Health for All, a special display that opens October 1, 2019.

Dr. Lindberg Memorial Video

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the future plans of its 2018-2019 class of Associate Fellows. The Associate Fellowship Program is a one-year postgraduate training program with an optional second year. This competitive program provides associates with a broad foundation in health sciences information services and prepares librarians for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and health services research. This group of Associate Fellows recently ended the first year of their fellowship. Three will continue for second year fellowships at health sciences libraries in the United States: at Lane Medical Library, Stanford University; Strauss Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado, and at the Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan. Two of the Associate Fellows will take positions at libraries in the Washington DC area: one at the National Agricultural Library and one at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) are pleased to announce the members of the 2019/2020 class of the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program. This jointly sponsored program prepares emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries by pairing fellows with mentors for a one-year leadership development experience.  

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D., who served as the director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for more than 30 years. He was one of the longest-serving leaders at NIH and continued his service as director emeritus of NLM after his retirement in March 2015. Because of his pioneering work in applying computer technology to biomedical research and health information, he is considered by many to be the country’s senior statesman for computers and medicine. Don died on August 16 following a fall; he was 86.

Discovery may be useful in cancer diagnosis

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with the Medical Heritage Library (MHL) to promote free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine and the human health sciences.

The professional association Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences (ALHHS) honored NLM historian Susan L. Speaker, PhD, with its 2019 ALHHS best article award.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest biomedical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, is pleased to announce our 2019-2020 class of Associate Fellows.

Banner display and online exhibition open June 3, 2019

The NLM is pleased to announce applications are open to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, supporting research in the historical collections of the NLM.

April 10, 2019. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has begun moving biomedical sequence data from the SRA onto Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services cloud platforms.

April 8, 2019. The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) of NLM is pleased to announce the newly revised tutorial, Finding and Using Health Statistics. Designed to introduce librarians and students to the basic terminology and principles of health statistics, the course also provides a useful outline of the various U.S. sources for important statistical data.

A much anticipated open-access book entitled Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History, comprising a collection of research papers, is now available from VT Publishing and NLM Digital Collections.

Online Exhibition and Banner Display Open March 18, 2019

Widely-appreciated research resource available ahead of February 28 public lecture by the University of Maryland’s Oliver Gaycken, “Fantastic Voyages Through the Historical Audio-Visual Collections at the National Library of Medicine”

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Wellcome have completed their partnership to make thousands of full back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals freely available through the National Institutes of Health life sciences repository PubMed Central (PMC), and through its European counterpart, Europe PMC.

For the winter edition, the 2019 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary was evaluated for inclusion in the Classification index. Several additions and changes were made to the Index and Schedules based on this review. All main index headings are now linked to the 2019 vocabulary in the MeSH Browser. Additional minor updates were made to the Index and Schedules.

The National Library of Medicine is seeking a Health Program Specialist. Applications will be accepted until February 3, 2019.

New Job opening added: Scientific Director - Applications will be accepted to March 18, 2019

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC), with support from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is pleased to announce the launch of

Special Display and Online Exhibition Open January 11

Statistics on citations indexed, journal titles, number of searches, Web/Interactive, and Script/E-Utilities.

Following its April 27, 2018, call for applications to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, the NLM is pleased to announce its 2019 DeBakey Fellows:

Announcement features an exhibition on the history of U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic in commemoration of World AIDS Day.

A Blue Ribbon Panel established to review the intramural research program of the National Library of Medicine has issued its report. The Panel was chaired by Russ Altman, MD, PhD, from Stanford University, and included eight additional leading experts with a broad knowledge of biomedical informatics, computational biology, and data science.

This past weekend, NLM Director, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, was presented the 2018 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence at the AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium in San Francisco.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is hiring a General Engineer. This position opens 11/07/2018.

Donald West King, MD, died from complications of cancer on October 21, 2018.

NLM Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, has announced the appointment of Olivier Bodenreider, MD, PhD, as Acting Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC), effective November 1, 2018.

NLM Mourns the Loss of Elizabeth Fee

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce a new design for the Tox Town website, which provides consumer-level information on everyday locations and situations where toxic chemical exposure might occur.  

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has teamed up with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to conduct a study on forecasting the long-term costs for preserving, archiving, and promoting access to biomedical data.

NLM Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, has announced the appointment of Clem McDonald, MD, to the newly created position of Chief Health Data Standards Officer for the National Library of Medicine. Dr. McDonald’s appointment will be effective November 1, 2018.

On September 17, 2018, The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC), in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), published an addendum to the eCQM annual update specifications originally published in May 2018.  This addendum updates eCQM value sets for the 2019 reporting period for Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and the performance period for Eligible Professionals (EPs) and Eligible Clinicians.

Editor's note added on September 27, 2018 — PubMed Labs: an experimental system for improving biomedical literature search.

An opening for a Supervisory Bioinformatics Specialist is now open and accepting applications until October 10, 2018.

Dr. Alan Kay

An alternate link to provide access to 2019 MeSH is available from the top navigation bar on the MeSH Browser homepage.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is currently involved in MEDLINE year-end processing (YEP) activities.

On November 28, 2018, NLM expects to temporarily halt the addition of newly-indexed MEDLINE citations to PubMed.

Earlier this year, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced the release of a new and improved search feature that interprets plain language to give better results for common searches.

PubMed Labs is a responsive Web site that can generate different display options depending on a user's device size, e.g., mobile phones.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the addition of basis of strength substance (BoSS) related attributes in RxNorm beginning with the September 2018 release.

The September full monthly release of RxNorm and release notes are available as of Tuesday, September 4, 2018.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the addition of United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Compendial Nomenclature as a new data source in RxNorm.

The September 2018 SNOMED CT United States (US) Edition release is available now for download by UMLS Licensees.

Do you want to improve the quality and flow of clinical information, and facilitate clinical research? Are you working toward making health data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR)?

A new Clinical Observations Recordings and Encoding (CORE) Problem List Subset of SNOMED CT is available now for download by UMLS Licensees.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) performs research on computational biology and creates and maintains information systems and computational tools for the biological research community. The Information Engineering Branch (IEB) of NCBI aims to make biomedical data accessible and useful to scientific researchers, those in the public health field, and the general public through efficient and effective modern information technology (IT) practices and innovative design strategies. IEB production web sites are accessed, on average, by more than four million users who view 21 million web pages and download 100 terabytes (TB) of data daily.

The July-August 2018 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin is now complete.

The NLM Classification, available online at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/class/, is updated two times a year.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the future plans of its 2017-2018 class of Associate Fellows. The Associate Fellowship Program is a one-year postgraduate training program with an optional second year. This competitive program provides associates with a broad foundation in health sciences information services and prepares librarians for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and health services research. This group of Associate Fellows recently ended the first year of their fellowship. All three will continue for a second year of the Associate Fellowship Program in libraries in Chicago and Philadelphia.

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: I am pleased to present the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request for the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries and the National Library of Medicine (https://www.nlm.nih.gov) are pleased to announce the members of the 2018-2019 class of the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program. The jointly sponsored program matches fellows and mentors in a one year leadership development program. Since the program began in 2002, 54 percent of fellow graduates have assumed director positions. 

Posted Date: August 13, 2018; Closing Date: Until position is filled.

Posted Date: August 13, 2018; Closing Date: Until position is filled.

Related Articles Appear in HMD Blog Circulating Now July 17-20, 2018

NLM Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, has announced the appointment of Dina Paltoo, PhD, MPH, as NLM Assistant Director for Policy Development. In this role, she leads NLM’s policy and legislative activities which promote access to scientific data and information, as well as health information technology. Dr. Paltoo had performed the duties in an interim capacity since April 2018 while on detail from the NIH Office of Science Policy (OSP), Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her official appointment took effect July 9, 2018.

The National Library of Medicine (1) assists the advancement of medical and related sciences through the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information important to the progress of medicine and health; (2) serves as a national information resource for medical education, research, and service activities of Federal and private agencies, organizations, and institutions; (3) serves as a national information resource for the public, patients, and families by providing electronic access to reliable health information issued by the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources; (4) publishes in print and electronically guides to health sciences information in the form of catalogs, bibliographies, indexes, and online databases; (5) provides support for medical library development and for training of biomedical librarians and other health information specialists; (6) conducts and supports research in methods for recording, storing, retrieving, preserving, and communicating health information; (7) creates information resources and access tools for molecular biology, biotechnology, toxicology, environmental health, and health services research; and (8) provides technical consultation services and research assistance.

The National Library of Medicine released a new design for the Disaster Information Management Research Center website and the Disaster Lit® database.  The new design improves access to key resources on natural and man-made disasters, as well as public health emergencies such as emerging infectious diseases. 

On June 1, 2018, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) released a new design for its Main homepage featuring simplified navigation, improved access to news and highlights about NLM’s work and training opportunities, and more direct access to NLM’s most popular resources.