This past summer, the NIAMS Intramural Research Program’s (IRP’s) Career Development and Outreach Branch (CDOB) welcomed a cohort of 16 interns from across the country to participate in the NIAMS Summer Internship Program known as InVTRO, the first to do so fully in person since 2019.

A conversation between Dr. David R. Wilson, director of the NIH Tribal Health Research Office, and Dr. Lindsey A. Criswell, director of NIAMS, about information and resources for American Indians and Alaska Natives related to bone, muscle, skin, and autoimmune diseases. Watch the video on YouTube. Transcript Dave Wilson: Hello, my name is Dr. Dave Wilson. I am a member of the Navajo Nation, and I am also the Director of the Tribal Health Research Office, also known as THRO, here at the National Institutes of Health. Today I am joined by my colleague Dr. Lindsay Criswell, who is the

Dear Colleagues, From the Hippocratic corpus, the author writes, “I consider the responsibility of medicine to be to entirely relieve the suffering of the sick and to blunt the extremities of disease” (The Art 3.4-7)1. Note that despite the acknowledgment that disease may only be blunted, in promoting health it is our duty to relieve suffering wherever possible.

This past summer, the NIAMS Intramural Research Program’s (IRP’s) Career Development and Outreach Branch (CDOB), welcomed the first hybrid class of interns to the Intramural Virtual Training Research Opportunities (InVTRO) program.