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Dr. Ingrid Li received a doctorate in pharmacy after which she became a faculty member in the Department of New Drug Research in Shanghai, China. She has held research scientist positions at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Pharmaceutical Division, and Bayer Pharmaceutical Division…
Dr. Ramos-Lopez holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She completed her doctoral studies on the development of vaccines against leishmaniasis in a canine model. Then, she pursued postdoctoral training at the Icahn School of Medicine…
Dr. Nesmelova earned her Ph.D. in physics and mathematics from Kazan State University in Russia and completed postdoctoral training in biophysics and biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. She subsequently joined the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as a faculty member, where she…
Dr. Ivan Navarro received his master’s degree from Moscow State University ‘M.V. Lomonosov’; later he received his Ph.D. in biomedical science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ‘UNAM,’ where he developed non-viral vectors for targeted gene delivery to substantia nigra’s dopamine…
Dr. Ivan Rebustini received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Sao Paulo and was a postdoctoral visiting fellow at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), where he specialized in molecular, developmental, and regenerative biology. He joined Brigham and…
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. Jacek Topczewski received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Dr. Topczewski then trained in developmental biology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Following his training, Dr. Topczewski took a faculty position…
Dr. Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew serves as Chief of the Clinical Care and Health Interventions Review Branch (CCHI RB).Dr. Bronte-Tinkew earned her Ph.D. in demography from the Pennsylvania State University--University Park, and completed post-graduate studies at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary…
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,…
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. Janetta Lun earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Virginia, where she conducted and published research on how our beliefs about others and the self are influenced by the surrounding context. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Maryland, College Park,…
Dr. Janice Duy received her Ph.D. in functional genomics from the University of Maine and pursued postdoctoral training at the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), where she also served as principal investigator. Prior to joining CSR, Dr. Duy was a program…
Dr. Jason Hoffert received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He obtained post-doctoral training in renal salt and water transport at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism. For 12…
Dr. Jeanne McCaffery received her Ph.D. in clinical and health psychology with a focus on cardiovascular behavioral medicine from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the NIH, she served as assistant and associate professor at the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine and the…
Dr. Jennifer Kielczewski received her Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from the University of Florida. She obtained post-doctoral training in immunoregulation of the eye at the National Eye Institute (NEI) in the Laboratory of Immunology. Prior to joining CSR, she held a staff scientist…
Dr. Jennifer Meyers earned her Ph.D. in immunology from Harvard Medical School, focusing on autoimmunity, and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at NIAID in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, studying immune responses to HIV infection. She then served as science manager at The American…
Dr. Jennifer Fiori O’Connell received her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine investigating the dysregulation of bone morphogenetic protein signaling pathways in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), a devastating genetic condition in…
Dr. Jennifer Sanders received her Ph.D. in molecular biology, cell biology, and biochemistry from Brown University and completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at Rhode Island Hospital. Following fellowship, she joined the faculty at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her…
Dr. Jennifer Schiltz received a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh and conducted postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Neuronal Structure and Function at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA, where her NIH-funded work focused on the central circuitry involved in…