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Dr. Manzoor A. Zarger received his Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology, and conducted his postdoctoral studies at Thomas Jefferson University, where he was at the forefront of apoptosis research discovering various caspases, death receptors, and anti-apoptotic molecules, and their roles in…
Dr. Maqsood Wani serves as Chief of the Cell and Developmental Biology Review Branch (CDB RB).
Dr. Maqsood Wani received his Ph.D. at the Ohio State University and did his postdoctoral work at the University of Cincinnati where he was also a new investigator in Program of Excellence in Molecular…
Dr. Maria Cardenas-Corona joined CSR following her retirement as a research professor emeritus of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine. During her academic career, her studies focused on the elucidation of the mechanism of action of the anti-cancer,…
Dr. Michael Opata received his Ph.D. in microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics from the University of Kentucky. He obtained postdoctoral training in infectious diseases from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Dr. Opata then took a faculty position at Appalachian State…
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. Victoria Virador received her Ph.D. in food science from the University of California, Davis. She served as a staff scientist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where she conducted research in cell and stem cell biology, pigmentation, and the development of organoids and animal research…
Dr. Vivian Tang holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. After obtaining her degrees, she received postdoctoral training at the Harvard Medical School. Before joining CSR, Dr. Tang was a research assistant professor and…
Dr. Weiqun Li received his first MD degree at the Nanjing Medical University in China and his second one at the Freie University of Berlin in Germany. He did his postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute (NCI). He was an assistant professor…
Dr. Wenjuan Wang received her Ph.D. in population and reproductive health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Before joining CSR, she worked as the deputy director of research for the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program at ICF in Rockville, MD. While there, Dr. Wang…
Dr. Wenyan Han received her Ph.D. in neuropharmacology from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University in China, where she studied neuropeptides and drug addiction. She then completed postdoctoral research training at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the National Institute of…
Dr. Yingli Fu received her Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed her post-doctoral training in radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Prior to her role at CSR, Dr. Fu was an assistant professor of radiology at Johns Hopkins…
Dr. Yujing Liu received his doctoral degree in molecular genetics from Syracuse University. His research focused on lysosomal storage diseases and neurodegenerative disorders. He also investigated angiogenesis by using mouse models. Dr. Liu did his postdoctoral training in human genetic…
Dr. Marisa Srivareerat received a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Houston. Dr. Srivareerat began her career supporting the Biological Sciences Division at Aerospace Innovations Group in Albuquerque, where she oversaw clinical operations and research initiatives. She then moved on to…
Dr. Santanu Banerjee received his Ph.D. in life sciences from Bose Institute, Calcutta, India and did a brief postdoctoral training at University of Rochester Medical Center (NY), working on the role of transcription factors on T-cell differentiation. From there, he to Massachusetts General…
Dr. Sarita Sastry received her Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she studied the role of integrins in muscle differentiation. She completed her post-doctoral work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where she studied the regulation of protein…
Dr. Angela Thrasher received her Ph.D. in health behavior from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Thrasher completed postdoctoral training in health disparities, social determinants of health, and minority aging research at the University of…
Dr. Anuja Mathew earned her Ph.D. in immunology and virology from the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), where she studied T cell immune responses to dengue virus infections, and then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital studying…
Dr. Brittany Mason-Mah received her Ph.D. in psychiatry from King’s College London, working in both the Institute of Psychiatry and the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, with an emphasis on physiology and blood-brain barrier regulation. She then completed postdoctoral training in preclinical and…
Dr. Charlene Repique received her Ph.D. in biomedical science from Northeastern University, where she studied melanoma cell integrin-extracellular matrix interactions. She obtained postdoctoral training in preclinical development of DNA-based tuberculosis vaccines at the U.S. Food and Drug…
Dr. Devon Oskvig received a Ph.D. in Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience from Georgetown University and completed her postdoctoral training in the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program. She identified novel cellular and molecular mechanisms by which maternal infection alters…
Dr. Dharmendar Rathore has 17+ years of extramural research administration experience at the NIH. Prior to joining CSR in 2025, he served as Chief of the Scientific Review Branch at National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), where he led a review group responsible for the peer review of funding…
Dr. Ganesan Ramesh obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, where his dissertation focused on the role of TGF-βs in pre-implantation embryo development and its regulation by steroid hormones in the uterus. His expertise is in kidney pathophysiology and…
Dr. Joshua Park holds an MS degree in pharmacology, microbiology, and immunology from the Medical University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology from Johns Hopkins University. Thereafter, he pursued postdoctoral training at the National Institute of…
Dr. June Gin received a Ph.D. in resource policy and behavior from the University of Michigan's School of Environment and Sustainability, focusing on environmental sociology. Before joining CSR, she was a research health scientist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Emergency…
Dr. Lee Klinkenberg received his Ph.D. in biological sciences from the University at Albany, SUNY. He completed post-doctoral training at the Tuberculosis Research Center in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Subsequently, Dr. Klinkenberg became research faculty at Johns Hopkins and…
