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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. 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. Zhao is the Scientific Review Officer for the Gastrointestinal Mucosal Pathobiology Study Section within the Digestive, Kidney and Urological Systems Integrated Review Groups. After receiving his graduate degrees, Dr. Zhao had postdoctoral training in the Department of Medicine at Uniformed…
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Dr. Byung Min (Justin) Chung received his Ph.D. degree in cancer research from Northwestern University, where he studied kinase signaling pathways in non-small cell lung cancer. He then moved on to Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for his postdoctoral training, elucidating non-mechanical…
Dr. Rebecca Burgess came to CSR from a faculty position at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Maryland, where she taught microbiology, molecular genetics, and cell biology. Her research focused on the impact of chromatin structure on the DNA damage response, as well as best practices in the…
Dr. Syed Quadri serves as Chief of the Cancer Diagnosis, Prevention & Therapeutics Review Branch (CDPT RB).
After earning a Ph.D. (1987) in bioorganic chemistry from George Washington University, Dr. Quadri has conducted basic and translational research focused on human cancers. He began his…
Ms. Anne Tollett is an Extramural Support Assistant within the Division of Physiological and Pathological Sciences (DPPS). After completing an apprenticeship in administrative support and communication, Anne Tollett gained extensive experience as an executive assistant with the Department of…
Dr. Neuhuber earned her Ph.D. in cell biology from the University of Salzburg, Austria, and completed postdoctoral training at NHLBI, where she investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying neuromuscular junction development. She subsequently joined Drexel University College of Medicine as an…
Dr. James Mack serves as Chief of the Macromolecular Biophysics and Biological Chemistry Review Branch (MBBC RB).Dr. James W. Mack earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry, specializing in solid-state NMR spectroscopy, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then did postdoctoral work at…
Dr. Jonathan Peterson received his Ph.D. in exercise physiology at West Virginia University School of Medicine. There he studied the role of fatty acid toxicity on attenuating muscle growth in severe obesity. He then became a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research at…
Dr. Tatiana Cohen obtained her Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, where she studied transcriptional regulation of muscle-specific genes.
She continued her postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute, where she developed transgenic mouse models of human…
Dr. Salm Ward earned an M.S.W. and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in health sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was an assistant professor jointly appointed in public health and social work at the University of Georgia and an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-…
Dr. Zachary Bailey earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech where he studied the interactions of blast overpressure waves with biological systems. He pursued his post-doctoral training at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) through the National Research Council,…
Dr. Izabella Zandberg received her Ph.D. in mass communications at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining CSR, she served as a social scientist at the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Tobacco Products. During her tenure at FDA, Dr. Zandberg designed and implemented…
Dr. Michael Bloom’s career began at the Jackson Laboratory, where he completed his Ph.D. thesis in hematology and genetics. After leaving Maine, he was a postdoctoral fellow and staff scientist at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute intramural program where he studied aplastic anemia and…
Dr. Alyssa Gregory received her Ph.D. in immunology from Washington University in St. Louis. She completed post-doctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh, where her work focused on the role of neutrophils in a variety of chronic pulmonary diseases, including emphysema, lung cancer, and…