The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced that physician-scientist Dr. Darryl C. Zeldin will become the Institute's new scientific director. Effective October 23, Zeldin will lead and manage a $114 million biomedical research programme focused on discovering how the environment influences human health and disease.
Zeldin has served as the Institute's acting clinical director since 2007, in addition to leading two research groups within the Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, focusing on both basic and clinical translational research. As scientific director, Zeldin will oversee the intramural, or in house, research programmes with about 950 employees working in 12 different laboratories and branches, and eight core facilities.
Zeldin is trained in internal medicine with a subspecialty in pulmonary and critical care medicine. He has spent most of his professional career at NIEHS, arriving in 1994 as a tenure-track investigator before being promoted to a tenured senior investigator in 2001. Zeldin has served in several leadership roles at NIEHS, including representing his fellow scientists as president of the NIEHS Assembly of Scientists, and participating in developing strategic research plans for the division and for NIEHS.
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