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Dr. Shilpakala Ketha obtained her Ph.D. in microbial genetics from the University of Madras, which focused on the inactivation of DNA gyrases in bacteria through small molecules and antisense RNA. Following this, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA…
Dr. Shinako Takada received her Ph.D. in basic medical science from the University of Tokyo in Japan, where she studied mechanisms of hepatitis B virus-induced hepatocarcinogenesis. Her post-doctoral research in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley…
Before coming to CSR, Dr. Shivakumar Chittari worked at the Henry M. Jackson foundation supporting the NIH Uniformed Services University (USU) Precision Medicine Program as Director for Administration and Research Projects. In addition, he provided scientific peer review support for the USU Vice…
Dr. Shree Ram Singh received his Ph.D. in genetics from the Banaras Hindu University, India, and was a scientist at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. After postdoctoral training at Haifa University, Israel, and at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), he became a staff scientist at NCI. He has…
Dr. Siddhartha Roy received his DrPH degree from Georgia Southern University in public health with a focus on community health behavior and education. He completed his post-doctoral training at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL, where he assisted in the development and implementation of community…
Dr. Simon Peron received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine, where he worked on the biophysical mechanisms subserving neural computations in insect vision. He received postdoctoral training at Janelia Farm Research Campus in large-scale two-photon calcium imaging of the mouse…
Dr. Simone Chebabo Weiner obtained a Ph.D. in biophysics/physiology from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has a background in pharmacy. During her graduate training, she studied the role of GABA and glutamate in brain edema excitability, using electrophysiological recordings.…
Dr. Stacey Williams earned her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy. Her graduate training was in neuropharmacology and her research was focused in the area of drug addiction, where she investigated the involvement of brain-derived neurotrophic factor…
Dr. Stephanie Hicks received her Ph.D. in biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in the Pharmacology Department, where she conducted structure-function…
Dr. Stephanie Nagle Emmens earned her Ph.D. in speech, language and hearing at the University of Connecticut, investigating the role of the auditory centers of the brain in behavioral perception of complex auditory information. She joined the faculty at Towson University and also worked as a…
Dr. Steven Ripp received his Ph.D. in microbiology and molecular genetics at Oklahoma State University and thereafter completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Tennessee (UT)-Knoxville under an Alexander Hollaender Postdoctoral Fellowship. He remained at UT-Knoxville for 20 years,…
Dr. Sudha Veeraraghavan received Ph.D. in biophysics and biochemistry from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, where she conducted research in the area of protein folding. As a postdoctoral fellow she trained in structural biology at Tufts University School of Medicine and…
Dr. Sulagna Banerjee received her Ph.D. in life sciences from the Bose Institute, Jadavpur University, India. She then completed her post-doctoral research on glycosylation of parasitic protozoa in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at Boston University, MA. She went on to the University…
Dr. Sung-Wook Jang received his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from University of Wisconsin-Madison with his interest in Schwann cell myelination whose defects are known to be associated with many human diseases including Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Subsequently, Dr. Jang had postdoctoral…
Dr. Andersen received her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She furthered her training at Harvard Medical School, becoming a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and directing her laboratory for nearly 30 years. Dr. Andersen studied how…
Dr. Susan Daum earned her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University where she studied Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis and developed molecular genetic tools. She then conducted studies at the University of Chicago where she investigated the bacterial pathogen Staphylococcus…
Dr. Susan Gillmor served a faculty member of the chemistry department at George Washington University prior to joining CSR. She won an NSF fellowship pursing her doctoral studies, and after defending her dissertation on DNA microarrays, she joined a start-up company. She returned to academia as a…