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NIH names Gibbons director of NHLBI

Issue: May 2012

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Gary H. Gibbons, MD, has been selected to serve as the new director of the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Gibbons is the founder and current director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, chairman of the department of physiology, and professor of physiology and medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine. He is slated to start the new position in the summer.

Gibbons will oversee the third largest institute at the NIH, with an annual budget of more than $3 billion and a staff of 917 federal employees. Gibbons will also direct his own lab at the NIH, focusing on predictive health and genomic medicine in minority populations.