11/18: Lecture with Dr. Lawrence Tabak of the NIH
.“Research Challenges and Opportunities: A View from NIH”
Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD
Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health
Monday, Nov. 18
1-2 p.m.
Instructional Building, L110
Dr. Tabak is the Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Deputy Ethics Counselor of the Agency. He previously served as the Acting Principal Deputy Director of NIH (2009), and as Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research from 2000-10.
Dr. Tabak has provided leadership for numerous trans-NIH activities, including the NIH Roadmap effort to support team science; the NIH Director’s initiative to enhance peer review; NIH’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act implementation; the NIH initiative to enhance rigor and reproducibility in research; and the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan. He co-chaired working groups of the Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH on the Diversity of the Biomedical Research Workforce; the Long-Term Intramural Research Program; and currently is co-chair of both the Next Generation Researcher’s Initiative and High Risk High Reward Research working groups.
Prior to joining NIH, Dr. Tabak was the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Dentistry and Biochemistry & Biophysics in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester in New York. A former NIH MERIT recipient, Dr. Tabak’s major research focus has been on the structure, biosynthesis and function of glycoproteins. He continues work in this area, maintaining an active research laboratory within the NIH intramural program in addition to his administrative duties. He is an elected member the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies.