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Dr. Kathryn Koeller is an Associate Director in the Division of Receipt and Referral and the Research/Review Integrity Officer at the Center for Scientific Review.Prior to assuming this position, she was a Scientific Review Officer in the Biological and Macromolecular Biophysics Integrated Review…
Dr. Kathryn Marron completed her Ph.D. in the graduate training program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied golgin cleavage and Golgi apparatus disassembly in cell death induced by cytotoxic lymphocytes. After graduate school, she taught biology…
Dr. Kathy Partlow received her Ph.D. in molecular cell biology from Washington University, St. Louis. She conducted her graduate and postdoctoral work in laboratories that specialized in imaging (e.g., ultrasound and MRI) and organic chemistry, respectively. Dr. Partlow’s research experience has…
Dr. Katie Alexander completed her Ph.D. in immunology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Birmingham, AL, where she studied homeostatic interactions between Immunoglobulin A (IgA), regulatory T cells (Tregs), and the microbiota. She remained at UAB for her postdoctoral studies,…
Dr. Katrina Ferrara earned her Ph.D. in cognitive science from Johns Hopkins University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery at Georgetown University. Across her NIH-supported graduate and postdoctoral research, she studied typical and atypical…
Dr. Kausik (Bobby) Ray received his Ph.D. in life sciences (cell, molecular, and developmental biology program) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his M.S. in cytology & genetics from the University of Calcutta, India. Dr. Ray did his first postdoctoral training at the Weis Center…
Dr. Kenneth A. Roebuck received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and San Diego State University, where he studied the transcriptional regulation of small nuclear RNA genes. As a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD, Dr. Roebuck began research on HIV gene…
Dr. Kenneth Ryan received his B.S. in biology at Stony Brook University and completed his Ph.D. studies in biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.He completed postdoctoral training at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, England, on the…
Dr. Khalid Masood received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Central Drug Research Institute, India, and postdoctoral training in molecular biology at the Washington University School of Medicine. He has worked as a senior staff fellow in the intramural program of NIH, patent examiner in the United…
Dr. Khalida Shamim earned her Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, where she focused on the total synthesis of natural products and published her research on stemona alkaloids as well as the quinone methide macrolide, kendomycin. She subsequently joined…
Dr. King Leung (Andy) Fung earned his Ph.D. in chemical biology from the University of Hong Kong. He pursued postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Cell Biology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he focused on biological assay development and investigated the importance of synonymous…
Dr. Kirk Dineley received his Ph.D. and post-doctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, where his research focused on the role of metals in neurodegeneration. He subsequently served in faculty and administrative positions at several…
Dr. Thompson earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Utah studying how visual information is processed in the retina and early central visual pathways. He received postdoctoral training in the psychology department at Vanderbilt University, where he studied how the brain selects…
Dr. Konrad Krzewski received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences and M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the University of Gdansk, Poland, and did his postdoctoral work at Harvard University in the laboratory of Prof. Jack Strominger. Before joining CSR, Dr. Krzewski was a Staff Scientist at the National…
Dr. Kristen Prentice received her Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she studied the effects of healthy aging and traumatic brain injury on human cognition. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the…
Dr. Kristin Kramer received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Minnesota, completed postdoctoral training at both the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She then served as an assistant professor in…
Dr. Kristin McNally received her Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from Michigan State University. She completed postdoctoral training in prion diseases at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Montana, part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She subsequently…
Dr. Krystyna Szymczyk came to CSR after working at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases intramural research program in bioinformatics and data science. She received a Ph.D. in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Her…
Dr. Kumud Singh serves as Chief of the Immunology and Infectious Diseases A Review Branch (IIDA RB).Dr. Kumud K. Singh earned his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of Delhi, India, where he studied the structure-functional properties of catalytic RNAs. His postdoctoral research at the…