Interinstitute Relay Draws
Crowd to Bldg. 1 Lawn
Photos by Ernie Branson
The 22nd Interinstitute Relay Race drew 77 teams
to the lawn of Bldg. 1 on Sept. 15. NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni
started the first heat. Runners, in teams of five, completed laps
around Bldg. 1. Winning in a time of 14:04 were members of Wurtz
Possible Runners, a team that has competed regularly in the relay
since 1979. Members hail from Dr. Robert Wurtz's Laboratory of
Sensorimotor Research, NEI.
| Top Ten Relay Finishers |
| 1. |
Wurtz Possible Runners |
14:04 |
| 2. |
Proud Snail Hunters |
14:12 |
| 3. |
Bolting Electrons |
14:34 |
| 4. |
The Super Oxides |
14:47 |
| 5. |
Genomers |
15:05 |
| 6. |
First Place |
15:11 |
| 7. |
Too Fast 1 |
15:30 |
| 8. |
Li'l D's Dawgs |
15:38 |
| 9. |
Waisted Kinetics |
15:57 |
| 10. |
Catch Me If You Can(cer) |
16:15 |
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| NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni (l) chats
with Jeff Green of the Clinical Center’s PET/nuclear
medicine department before the first heat. |
NIH deputy director Dr. Raynard
Kington starts heat two with a whistle blast. |
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NCI’s Dr. Harold Seifried issues a “Call
to Races” on trumpet prior to the first heat. |
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| The winning team — Wurtz Possible
Runners — featured (from l) Simon Hong, Hendrikje Nienborg,
Kae Nakamura, Okihide Hikosaka and Ralf Haefner. |
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| Second place finisher Proud Snail Hunters
include (from l) Patricia Zerfas, Christiam Camacho, Christopher
Lanczycki, Kathi Canese and Greg Schuler. |
Third place finisher Bolting
Electrons are (from l) Tracy Laabs, Adam Bennett, Nadia Bouhzam,
Rachid Sougrat, Sriram Subramaniam and Jeff Lengyel. |
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