NIDDK News
From the NIDDK Reference Collection
Locating those hard-to-find resources has gotten easier with a database from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
 The NIDDK’s Reference Collection is a free, online, searchable database that helps health care professionals, health educators, patients, and the general public find educational materials not typically referenced in most other databases.
The Reference Collection currently houses more than 8,000 summaries that include a resource’s title,
author(s), publisher, abstract, and keywords. Also included is information about how to get full-text
copies of non-journal resources such as foreign-language materials, books and book chapters, brochures,
pamphlets, fact sheets, CD-ROMs, coloring books, bibliographies, audiovisual materials, posters,
computer programs, government documents, product descriptions, newsletters, and manuals.
Collection Spotlight
A recent addition to the Reference Collection is the sixth module in an eight-part patient education
program called Kidney School. The module focuses on anemia and kidney disease and is part of the print version of an online-learning program designed to help people understand kidney disease and its treatment, adjust to the disease, make good medical choices, and live life as fully as possible.
The module includes a discussion about anemia, practical suggestions and quotes from patients, a posttest, personal plan of action, and list of additional resources. Much of the information appears in sidebars, checklists, and diagrams.
Coming Soon: NIDDK Image Library
 Need a good medical illustration to accompany your PowerPoint presentation?
Soon you will be able to easily find and access medical illustrations featured in publications from
the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
Health care professionals, the general public—anyone—will be able to download illustrations from the NIDDK Image Library directly from the NIDDK website. The images are free but the NIDDK should be acknowledged as the source.
NIDDK Chiefs Receive Public Recognition
Four leaders at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases (NIDDK) have been publicly recognized for their professional
achievements:
William A. Eaton, M.D., Ph.D., chief of the laboratory of chemical physics in the NIDDK Division of Intramural Research, was named to the National Academy of Sciences for his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research focusing on fundamental aspects of the protein folding mechanism. Van S. Hubbard, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Nutrition Research
Coordination and the NIDDK’s associate director for nutritional sciences was promoted to rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service. Captain David M. Harlan, M.D., chief of the NIDDK’s diabetes branch, received the Public Health Service’s Research Physician of the Year Award for his research into the pathogenesis and treatment of diabetes. Robert Star, M.D., senior scientific adviser for translational biology and acting director of the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases, was recognized for
his leadership in developing and overseeing programs to enhance the clinical research
workforce for the National Institutes of Health.
NIDDK Ranks Seventh Among Postdocs in “Top Places to Work” Survey
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) ranked seventh among the top places for postdocs to work in North America, according to a survey published in the March issue of The Scientist. The Institute climbed the list from last year, when it ranked 15th.
Comments submitted with this year’s survey indicated that postdocs want knowledgeable, engaged mentors and principal investigators, clearly defined goals and feedback, career development training, adequate pay and benefits, and job security. The NIDDK’s proximity to the nation’s capital—and the potential career opportunities that presents—is a definite advantage, according to The Scientist.
The top-ranking postdoc choice in North America this year is the J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. Survey respondents chose the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, as the top employer outside North America.
Respondents identified themselves as nontenured life scientists working in academia or other noncommercial research centers. More than 2,900 scientists from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe responded to the web-based questionnaire.
NIH Publication No. 07–4531
November 2006
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