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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…
Dr. Brian Chadwick received his Ph.D. in human genetics from Imperial Cancer Research Fund and University College London, he then trained in molecular neurogenetics at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital before continuing his training in epigenetics and human X chromosome…
Dr. Hoshaw received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology/Neuroscience from Temple University where he studied the neuroscience of addiction. He then obtained post-doctoral training in pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania where he studied stress neurobiology. Dr. Hoshaw joined CSR as a…
Dr. Brian Scott joined CSR in 2016 as a Divisional SRO in the Division of Neuroscience, Development and Aging (DNDA) and is currently an SRO in the Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience review branch where he oversees the Auditory System study section. Dr. Scott’s experience reviewing a broad…
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…
After obtaining a D.V.M. degree from the University of Agriculture, Dr. Shah received a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Boston University, where his research focused on the neurotransmitter expression in the embryonic neurons. Dr. Shah conducted postdoctoral studies on the regulation…
Dr. 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 functions of…
Dr. Tang-Toth received her Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University and did her postdoctoral training as an IRTA fellow within the Cell Biology and Metabolism Program at the NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Prior to joining CSR, Dr. Tang-Toth was an associate…