Dr. David Barmes
Dr. David Barmes, NIDR special expert for international health,
was chosen as the 1997 Percy T. Phillips visiting professor at
Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery. The
professorship is awarded annually to an outstanding leader in public
health and dentistry; Barmes was selected for his contributions to
international oral health and his broad perspective on worldwide
problems in dentistry. During his visit to Columbia Apr. 9-10, he
delivered a lecture on "Global Oral Disease: Now and Tomorrow."
He also led two seminars -- one on "Global Prevalence and Trends
of Common Oral Diseases," and the other on "Cancrum Oris -- A
Killer Disease."
Dr. Louis H. Miller
NIAID's Dr. Louis H. Miller is the winner of the sixth annual
Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in
Infectious Disease Research for his work in identifying basic genetic
mechanisms employed by malaria parasites to infect and survive in
their hosts. Chief of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, Miller has
found molecular targets that could aid both in the development of
new drugs to treat malaria and of vaccines to prevent severe
disease. Malaria has been all but eliminated in industrialized areas of
the world such as the United States and Europe, but it still claims
the lives of between 1 and 3 million people worldwide each year.
Now those numbers are on the rise again.
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