Jon Lorsch will join the National Institutes of Health this summer as the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Lorsch, 45, will oversee the Bethesda, Md., agency's $2.4 billion budget, which is mostly used to fund research in cell biology, biophysics, genetics, developmental biology, pharmacology, physiology, biological chemistry, biomedical technology, bioinformatics and computational biology. Lorsch comes to this role from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he is a professor in the department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry.