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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…
Dr. Carl White earned a Ph.D. in physiology from Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdom and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania, where he investigated calcium-dependent cell-signaling mechanisms. Dr. White then joined the faculty of Rosalind Franklin…
Dr. Perez-Torres earned his Ph.D. in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine and followed that up with postdoctoral training in the Department of Radiology at Washington University in Saint Louis. Dr. Perez-Torres then took a faculty position in the School of…
Dr. Carmen Bertoni received her Ph.D. from the University of Perugia, Italy. Her postdoctoral work at Stanford University was centered on optimizing gene therapy strategies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). She then joined the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as an assistant…
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. Chee Lim serves as Chief of the Musculoskeletal, Skin, and Oral Sciences Review Branch (MSOS RB).Dr. Chee Chew Lim received his Ph.D. in physiology and then did his postdoctoral training in age-associated diastolic dysfunction at Boston University School of Medicine. Before joining the NIH, Dr…
Dr. Ching-Yi Shieh received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Trained as a demographer, her research interests include women’s health, mortality, life course transitions, social determinants of health, and quantitative and qualitative research methods. Dr. Shieh…
Dr. Chiu-Fang Chou received her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree in Health Policy and Administration from the University of Illinois Chicago and completed postdoctoral research training in health services research at the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the Center for Scientific…
Dr. Christina Scheel received her Ph.D. in cellular biology from the University of Georgia and has more than 20 years of experience as a public health scientist specializing in laboratory research on infectious diseases, including those affecting the central nervous system (CNS). Prior to joining…
Dr. Christine DiDonato received her Ph.D. in molecular genetics from The Ohio State University. She did two postdoctoral training periods in Canada. First at Hospital Ste. Justine Research Center in Montréal, Québec, and then at Ottawa Health Research Institute in Ottawa, Ontario where she gained…
Dr. Christopher Mahone earned his Ph.D. in biological chemistry from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he studied activating signals of bacterial cell wall remodeling for division. Following his Ph.D., he joined the Milken Institute’s Pillar for Philanthropy as a senior associate,…
Dr. Christopher Payne received his Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology at the Oregon Health and Science University, where he studied the mechanisms regulating cytoskeletal and membrane dynamics during mammalian fertilization. Following postdoctoral training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer…
Dr. Courtney Watkins received her Ph.D. in chemistry and biochemistry from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her graduate research focused on the enzymology of molybdenum-dependent proteins (molybdopterin oxidoreductases) and microbial nitrate reduction. After graduate school, she…
Dr. Cristina Bäckman received her early education in Sweden, Linköping university. She received her Ph.D. in neuroscience form the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Before joining CSR, she was an intramural researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Her laboratory…
Dr. Reitz-Krueger holds a Ph.D. in community psychology from the University of Virginia, where she also completed a two-year fellowship in the Curry School of Education. Her research focused on adolescent health and development, with an emphasis on understanding social risk and protective factors…
Dr. Cynthia Anderson received her Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from the University of Hawaii (UH) and completed her postdoctoral training at the UH Center for Cardiovascular Research. Her research background is in cardiovascular biology with a focus on advancing therapeutic ultrasound…
Dr. Cynthia McOliver obtained her Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center. She holds a Ph.D. in environmental health sciences and a risk sciences and public policy certificate from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has…
Dr. Yu is a molecular cell biologist specializing in stem cell biology, holding a B.S. in genetics from Nankai University. She performed her graduate studies in the area of developmental biology and received her Ph.D degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her postdoctoral work at the…