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Dr. Barry Margulies received B.S. at MIT in Applied Biological Sciences, with research in controlled release technology. He earned his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology, where he studied the G protein-coupled receptors encoded…
Dr. David Filpula received his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Minnesota and completed postdoctoral training in protein chemistry and molecular genetics at Stanford University and the University of California, San Diego. Subsequently, he served for nearly three decades as a research…
Dr. Eleni Liapi received her M.D. at the University of Ioannina Faculty of Medicine, Greece, and residency training in diagnostic radiology, in Greece. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in interventional radiology at Johns Hopkins University and was subsequently appointed as faculty…
Dr. Emily Kilroy earned her Ph.D. in occupational science with a concentration in neuroscience from the University of Southern California (USC). She also holds a Master of Science from University College London and Yale University, specializing in developmental neuropathology. Dr. Kilroy has…
Dr. Juraj Bies received his Ph.D. in cancer genetics from the Scientific Council for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences and Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He did his postdoctoral training in the field of viral oncogenesis at NIH in the Laboratory of Genetics…
Dr. Khalida Shamim earned her Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, where she focused on the total synthesis of natural products and published her research on stemona alkaloids as well as the quinone methide macrolide, kendomycin. She subsequently joined…
Dr. Bogdanov obtained his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in 1999 at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine / City University of New York, where he studied molecular and cellular mechanisms that contribute to vessel reocclusion following coronary angioplasty. After…
Dr. Gloria Su received her Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Chicago. Her post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine focused on identifying tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes important to pancreatic tumorigenesis. She joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins…
Dr. Ian Thorpe received his Ph.D. from The Scripps Research Institute (California) in the field of computational biochemistry and biophysics, where he was a trainee of the La Jolla Interfaces in Science program. He then did postdoctoral training in the Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation…
Dr. Ramos-Lopez holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She completed her doctoral studies on the development of vaccines against leishmaniasis in a canine model. Then, she pursued postdoctoral training at the Icahn School of Medicine…
Dr. Jennifer Fiori O’Connell received her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine investigating the dysregulation of bone morphogenetic protein signaling pathways in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), a devastating genetic condition in…
Dr. Jian Yang attained his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the Ohio State University, Columbus, where he studied RNA biology. After completing postdoctoral training on cholesterol metabolism in mammalian systems at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, he joined the…
Dr. Debanjan Goswami received his Ph.D. in cell biology from the National Center for Biological Sciences – TIFR in Bangalore, India, followed by postdoctoral training in neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine. With over two decades as a biomedical scientist, Dr. Goswami advanced…
Dr. Jui Pandhare received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. Her thesis research was focused on functional characterization of microbial protease inhibitors for agricultural and industrial use. She then moved to the National Cancer Institute/NIH as a…
Dr. Laurent Taupenot’s academic background includes a B.S in biochemistry, cellular biology and physiology and a M.S in physiology from the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France, an advanced degree (DEA) in molecular and cellular biology and a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular neurobiology, both…
Dr. Nadeem Khan received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the North-Eastern Hill University, India. He received postdoctoral training at the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, and thereafter at the Geisel School of Medicine, NH, USA. He was promoted to research assistant professor and subsequently…
Dr. Nijaguna Prasad earned his master’s and Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Mysore, India, and completed postdoctoral training at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), where he investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN1)…
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. Victor Henriquez received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from The State University of New York at Stony Brook. He did his postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), where he trained in the neurological control of speech and swallowing while…
Dr. Ivan Navarro received his master’s degree from Moscow State University ‘M.V. Lomonosov’; later he received his Ph.D. in biomedical science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ‘UNAM,’ where he developed non-viral vectors for targeted gene delivery to substantia nigra’s dopamine…
Dr. Joanna Kubler-Kielb earned her M.Sc. Eng. in biotechnology from Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland. She received her Ph.D. in glycobiology and later a D.Sc. for independent research in vaccine development from the Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental…
Dr. Nesar Akanda received his M.D. and Ph.D. in neuroscience. After completing his Ph.D. at Karolinska and Linkoping University, Sweden, he joined the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he was an associate professor (research track). One of his research projects at UCF focused on the…
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…
Most competing grant applications to NIH require electronic submission using the SF424 (R&R) application forms. Electronic submission involves two separate systems working together – the federal portal Grants.gov and the NIH eRA Commons. The Office of Extramural Research provides information on…
Dr. Anna Babakhanyan received a master’s degree in biotechnology from San Jose State University and her Ph.D. in tropical medicine from the University of Hawaiʻi School of Medicine. She evaluated naturally acquired antibody responses to pregnancy-associated malaria vaccine candidates in Cameroonian…