On September 28, 2015, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins announced that Michael S. Lauer is to be the new NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research, replacing Sally Rockey. Dr. Lauer served as the Director of the Division of Prevention and Population Science at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) from 2007–2009, and from 2009 to the present, as Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at NHLBI. He was most recently named the NIH Co-Chair for the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative. For more information about Dr. Lauer’s distinguished career, please visit the NIH website.