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CSR Advisory Council Working Group Reports – September 2019
Early Career Reviewer Working Group – A working group was convened in 2019 to re-evaluate the Early Career Reviewer Program. The working group was comprised of two CSR Advisory Council members, two CSR scientific review officers, and four members of the scientific community who recently served as…
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Small Business: SBIR/STTR
Who is included in the small business peer-review study sections? What are the differences between the SBIR and STTR programs? What is a Fast-track award? How do I become an NIH SBIR/STTR application reviewer? Who is included in the small business peer-review study sections? Small business…
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Dr. Miriam Mintzer
Dr. Miriam Mintzer received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology (human memory and cognition) from New York University, Dr. Mintzer received postdoctoral training in the human behavioral pharmacology of substance abuse in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,…
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Dr. Liying Guo
Dr. Liying Guo received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and completed her postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Immunology (LI), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Before joining…
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Optimize Your Grant Application
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Dr. Ella Jones
Dr. Ella Jones earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Davis and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford. She has over 12 years of research experience in the private sector, pioneering the development of targeted molecules for cancer detection.…
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Vertebrate Animals
How has the Vertebrate Animals Section (VAS) of the application changed? What are the VAS criteria that must be addressed? Do applicants describe all proposed procedures on animals in the VAS? Do applicants describe and justify the sex of the animals proposed in the VAS? Do applicants justify…
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Dr. Nesar Akanda
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…
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Dr. Liangbiao Zheng
Dr. Liangbiao Zheng received his Ph. D. in biology from Harvard University. His postdoctoral training at Harvard focused on molecular genetics of mosquitoes. He continued his research in vector biology with special emphases on host-pathogen interactions and innate immunity as a staff scientist in…
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Dr. Christine DiDonato
Dr. Christine DiDonato received her Ph.D. in molecular genetics from The Ohio State University. She did two postdoctoral training periods in Canada. First at Hospital Ste. Justine Research Center in Montréal, Québec, and then at Ottawa Health Research Institute in Ottawa, Ontario where she gained…
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Dr. James Li
Dr. James Li received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he then started his professional career as a senior medicinal chemist in the pharmaceutical industry working on preclinical drug discovery programs involving pain management, anti-inflammatory,…
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