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For Immediate Release: Friday, September 9, 2016
CONTACT: Molly Freimuth, NIH Clinical Center, 301-549-5789, <e-mail:molly.freimuth@xxxxxxx>, Randall Kremer, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution,202-633-0817
MEDIA ADVISORY
NIH CLINICAL CENTER AND THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PARTNER TO LAUNCH MINERALS IN MEDICINE EXHIBITION
WHAT:
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, in partnership with The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, will open a special exhibition of more than 40 minerals that are crucial to human health and biomedicine. "Minerals in Medicine" is designed to enthrall and enlighten NIH Clinical Center's patients, their loved ones, and the NIH community. Media are invited into America's Research Hospital, the NIH Clinical Center, to experience this unique exhibition during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday September 12 at 4pm.
Beyond taking in the minerals' arresting beauty, spectators can learn about their important role in keeping the human body healthy, and in enabling the creation of life-saving medicines and cutting edge medical equipment that is used in the NIH Clinical Center and healthcare facilities worldwide. The exhibition, which is on an eighteen-month loan from the National Museum of Natural History, includes specimens that were handpicked from the museum's vast collection by NIH physicians in partnership with Smithsonian Institution geologists. Some of the minerals on display were obtained regionally as they are part of the Maryland and Virginia landscape.
WHO:
John I. Gallin, M.D., Director of the NIH Clinical Center
Jeffrey E. Post, Ph.D., Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Chair of the Department of Mineral Sciences and Curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection
WHEN:
Monday September 12, 2016, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
WHERE:
NIH Clinical Center (Building 10), 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892;
1st Floor near Admissions
HOW:
RSVP encouraged, but not required, to attend in person. NIH Visitors Map: <http://www.ors.od.nih.gov/maps/Pages/NIH-Visitor-Map.aspx>
About the NIH Clinical Center: The NIH Clinical Center is the clinical research hospital for the National Institutes of Health. Through clinical research, clinician-investigators translate laboratory discoveries into better treatments, therapies and interventions to improve the nation's health. More information: <http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov>.
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