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We continue to look for excellent senior and junior researchers to add to our current strengths and to help us venture into new areas. The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) is a division of the National Library of Medicine which is one of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, the government's primary agency for support and conduct of biomedical research. LHNCBC provides opportunities for postdoctoral fellows, graduate and medical students, college students, and visiting faculty to participate in collaborative research in a variety of areas of medical informatics. Research activities involve both basic and applied informatics in several broad research areas. Knowledge-based research focuses on language and information processing, and expert systems.