From my colleague Roger Wakimoto, VCR at UCLA.
Pramod
From: Wakimoto, Roger M <rwakimoto@conet.ucla.edu>
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
To: Pramod Khargonekar <pramod.khargonekar@uci.edu>, Theresa Maldonado <Theresa.Maldonado@UCOP.EDU>
Subject: FW: Mike Lauer has just announced his retirement
From: owner-nih-all-staff@list.nih.gov <owner-nih-all-staff@list.nih.gov> on behalf of NIH Executive Secretariat <NIHExecSec@nih.gov>
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
To: List NIH-ALL-STAFF <NIH-ALL-STAFF@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: From the Acting Director, NIH: Statement on the Retirement of Dr. Mike Lauer
Dear Colleagues,
I want to share that NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Michael S. Lauer, M.D., has announced that he will retire from federal service on Feb. 14, 2025. Dr. Lauer has served in this critical role since October 2015, overseeing NIH’s complex grant enterprise that successfully administers and awards nearly 60,000 grants at more than 2,500 institutions in every state, supporting the work of more than 300,000 researchers. He served as the Principal Advisor to the NIH Director on extramural research and grant funding. During his tenure, Dr. Lauer and his Office of Extramural Research colleagues helped NIH implement high-profile NIH priorities, including enhancing grants oversight and compliance, addressing sexual and nonsexual harassment and foreign threats, improving reporting of clinical trial results, sharing of research data, supporting the NIH eRA grants system – the largest grant system in the U.S. government, and engaging in extensive outreach with the extramural research community.
A board-certified cardiologist and researcher, Dr. Lauer joined NIH in 2007 as the Director of the Division of Prevention and Population Science at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). In 2009, he went on to become the Director of the NHLBI Division of Cardiovascular Sciences. His research interests have focused on clinical cardiovascular epidemiology, comparative effectiveness, and biostatistics. He has been actively involved with and is a strong advocate of policies and processes that enhance accountability in government-supported research.
Dr. Lauer is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and an elected fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. In 2012, Dr. Lauer received the Arthur S. Flemming Award for exceptional service in federal government. Prior to joining NIH, he spent more than a decade in several leadership roles at the Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Lauer received his M.D. from Albany Medical College in 1985 and completed his internship and residency in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He completed his cardiology training at Boston Beth Israel Hospital and the NHLBI Framingham Heart Study.
Please join me in thanking Dr. Lauer for his exemplary service to NIH and the American people and in wishing him the best in retirement.
Sincerely,
Matthew J. Memoli, M.D., M.S.
Acting Director, NIH
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