Course Description
Please join the FAES Academic Programs team on July 16, 2026 from 12 to 12:30PM ET for a Virtual Information Session to learn more about our fall courses, workshops, and our scholarship program!
The Teams link for the Information Session will be sent to you via email on June 16, 2026..
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Join FAES for the Following Upcoming Events:
FAES Educational Webinar Series: Redefining Education: The Brain Mechanisms of Afterimages
May 27, 2026, 12PM – 12:30PM ET
Location: Live-Online
Speaker: Sharif Kronemer, Ph.D. (NEUR 305)
Afterimages are common visual illusions that have attracted interest for hundreds of years. The precise physiological mechanisms of afterimages are unknown. Sharif will share details of a recent study highlighting for the first time the whole brain and cortical layer signals linked with afterimage perception. This work is broadly significant for addressing the neural mechanisms of conscious experience.
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FAES Science Insight Series: Trust Through Knowledge Grounding: AI Agents in Biomedicine
June 9, 2026 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Zhiyong Lu, PhD FACMI, FIAHSI, Senior Investigator, NIH, Professor of Computer Science (Adjunct), UIUC
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled powerful AI agents for biomedical research, yet their adoption in high-stakes settings remains limited by concerns about hallucination, opacity, and reliability. In this talk, I discuss how expert-curated domain knowledge can be used to help mitigate these challenges in general-purpose LLMs. Drawing on real-world systems and case studies such as GeneAgent (Nature Methods 2025), I will highlight design principles for building AI agents that are scientifically sound, interpretable, and suitable for biomedical research and clinical applications.
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FAES Science Insight Series: Microscopic Imaging of the Retina in Patients Using Adaptive Optics
July 21, 2026 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Johnny Tam, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, NEI
Adaptive optics is a technology used in modern large astronomical telescopes for correcting aberrations in earth’s atmosphere. In this talk, I will describe how adaptive optics has transformed the field of retinal imaging, with examples of new clinical insights from studying patients with rare diseases at the NIH Clinical Center.
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The Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) at NIH seeks to foster education and research in the biomedical sciences by providing instruction at the cutting edge of biological science and its evolving applications. Our goals also include responding to the educational and cultural needs of the NIH community and projecting FAES educational assets globally. All courses and workshops are open to the public. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS FAES admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, disability, or age in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, and other school-administered programs.
