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Dr. Annie Walker-Abbey obtained her Ph.D. degree in microbiology from the Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany. She then received postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), where she conducted…
Dr. Anthony Chan received his veterinarian training at National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. in Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received training in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and developed a gene transfer method to…
Dr. Anthony Foster received his Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda. He trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute before accepting a staff scientist position at the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC…
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. Aruna Behera received her Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from Delhi University, India, and did her postdoctoral training at the Division of Allergy and Immunology, University of South Florida, where she examined the molecular pathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. Her…
Dr. Asifa Haider holds a Ph.D. in molecular pharmacology from New York Medical College, US, and is a licensed pharmacist from ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University, NY. She applied pharmacogenomics to evaluate the role of immune microenvironments…
Dr. Atul Sahai. received a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Howard University. He was an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, before joining the NIH. The major focus of his research involved delineating the role of chronic local hypoxia in renal/…
Dr. Aubrey (Spriggs) Madkour earned her Ph.D. in maternal and child health with a minor in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also was a pre-doctoral trainee in population sciences. After graduating, she became a faculty member at the Tulane University…
Dr. Aurea De Sousa has a technical background in chemistry and holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics. She completed postdoctoral training in cell biology of molecular motors and neurobiology of septate junctions at the paranodes of myelinated axons at the University of North Carolina.…
Dr. Baila Hall received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Weill Cornell Medicine, where she investigated frontostriatal circuit function in social hierarchy behaviors, resiliency to chronic social stress, and social choice. She obtained postdoctoral training at the University of California, Los…
Dr. Bakary Drammeh received his Dr P.H. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and post-doctoral fellowship training in vaccine safety at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prior to joining CSR, he was a health scientist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Dr. Barbara Mallon received her D.Phil. in biochemistry at the University of York, UK, where she studied signal transduction in glial cells. She then went to the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where she completed her postdoctoral training in its department of…
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. Baskaran Thyagarajan received a master’s degree in pharmacy with a specialization in Pharmaceutics from Banaras Hindu University, India, and pursued a Ph.D. in molecular physiology and pharmacology from Karl-Franzen’s University of Graz, Austria. He completed his post-doctoral training at the…
Dr. Beata Buzas received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Attila Jozsef University in Szeged, Hungary. She was a postdoctoral fellow, then a research assistant professor at the Department of Pharmacology of the Uniformed Services University, focusing on the regulation of the opioid system by…
Dr. Benjamin G. Shapero received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia and completed his pre- and post-doctoral training in the psychiatry department at the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School. His area of expertise is in clinical…
Dr. Bernard Srambical Wilfred received his Ph.D. in biotechnology from the Cochin University of Science and Technology in India. He completed his postdoctoral training in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology from the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at University of Kentucky. He then joined the…
Dr. Beverly Doran earned her Ph.D. in genetics from Penn State University College of Medicine, where she studied the molecular mechanisms underlying mutation and fidelity at microsatellite sequences. She then trained at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in the Laboratory of Molecular…
Dr. Bidyottam Mittra received a Ph.D. in biochemistry & molecular biology from the Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, where he studied DNA replication in protozoan parasites and mechanisms of anti-parasitic therapeutics. He pursued his postdoctoral training in molecular microbiology at the…
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. Bita Nakhai received her Ph.D. in reproductive biology from the National Institute of Immunology (NII) and pursued her research at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as a postdoctoral fellow with a focus on serotonin receptor gene expression, followed by additional…
Dr. Bo Hong earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from Texas A&M University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining CSR, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). At UCI, she also…