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Dr. Marilyn Moore-Hoon received a Ph.D. in natural sciences (molecular biology) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where she combined molecular biology and biophysical approaches to study ion transport across epithelial cell membranes through solute transporter family members (SLC…
Dr. Ombretta Salvucci received her Ph.D. in cancer biology in a combined program between the Gustave Roussy Institute of Oncology in France and the University of Pavia in Italy. She subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Experimental Oncology, in the Human Tumor…
Dr. Shannon Sherman received her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Delaware. She then joined the J. Craig Venter Institute as the Director of Environmental Virology where her research focused on virus-host interactions…
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. 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. Vera Cherkasova received her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (Moscow, Russia). During her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, she studied cell cycle regulation during mating in budding yeast and the crosstalk between the mitogen-…
Dr. Victoriya Volkova received her Ph.D. in veterinary epidemiology, minoring in statistics, from Mississippi State University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a research associate at the College of Veterinary Medicine of Cornell University. As an associate…
Dr. Karin Garg received her Ph.D. in social work from Washington University in St. Louis. She completed post-doctoral fellowship training in clinical substance abuse treatment research at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Garg joined the faculty at Temple University, where she collaborated on…
Dr. Adam Heuberger received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University, where he later served as an associate professor. At CSU, he led a transdisciplinary research program integrating molecular biology, genetics, and metabolomics to investigate food, nutrition, and health sciences. His work focused…
Dr. Hasan Siddiqui received his Ph.D. in cancer and cell biology from the University of Cincinnati. He completed extensive postdoctoral training at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in molecular oncology and epigenetics. Subsequently, he was a staff scientist at Nationwide…
Dr. Jian Cao received his M.D. from Zhengzhou University School of Medicine in China and an M.S. from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. He had postdoctoral training in the field of molecular and cellular biology of cancer at Kanazawa University in Japan and then at Stony Brook University (…
Dr. Iyer received her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Mumbai, India, where she developed novel linkers for applications in combinatorial chemistry. She completed post-doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health, where she synthesized and characterized oxidative…
Dr. Rass M. Shayiq received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from India, he then finished postdoctoral training in the Department of Animal Biology, at the University of Pennsylvania. His research has focused on the biochemical and molecular characterization of a group of six constitutive and inducible…
Dr. Rich Lovering received his Ph.D. in rehabilitation sciences at the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) School of Medicine. His graduate work utilized animal models to study underlying mechanisms of skeletal muscle injury and recovery. His post-doctoral work was in the Department of…
Dr. Robert Gahl received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Cornell University. His graduate research examined the folding pathways of structural homologs within the ribonuclease family of proteins, using numerous bioanalytical techniques. Dr. Gahl’s findings identified the earliest events in the…
Dr. Roger Bannister began his Ph.D. studies in biology at the University of Iowa and completed his thesis at Utah State University. He received his post-doctoral training in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Colorado and was then appointed to a tenure-track faculty…
Dr. Rupali Das received her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock. Dr. Das trained at the Medical College of Wisconsin and then at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she gained expertise in topics related to immune…
Dr. Steven Frenk came to CSR after serving as an epidemiologist at CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics where he managed the questionnaires of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study (NHANES). While at CDC, he also served as an advisor for the National Death Index and as a…
Dr. Hope Cummings is a Senior Social Science Analyst who supports CSR’s research and evaluation efforts. Dr. Cummings received her Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Michigan and did post-doctoral training in the Harvard School of Public Health. As a social and behavioral…
Dr. Sindhu Kizhakke Madathil received a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Calcutta, India, where she focused on neuroprotective strategies for Parkinson’s disease in preclinical models. She then moved to the University of Kentucky, where she conducted…
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. Yu is a molecular cell biologist specializing in stem cell biology, holding a B.S. in genetics from Nankai University. She performed her graduate studies in the area of developmental biology and received her Ph.D degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her postdoctoral work at the…
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. Elisaveta Voynova received her Ph.D. in immunology from the Bulgarian Academy of Science, where she developed chimeric antibodies as novel immunotherapy for autoimmune disease. She then completed her postdoctoral training at the Autoimmunity and Functional Genomics Section of the…
After receiving her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Washington, Dr. Joann Wu Shortt dedicated over 15 years to prevention research at the Oregon Social Learning Center. As principal investigator and co-investigator on federally funded projects, her research focused on…