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Dr. Ombretta Salvucci received her Ph.D. in cancer biology in a combined program between the Gustave Roussy Institute of Oncology in France and the University of Pavia in Italy. She subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Experimental Oncology, in the Human Tumor…
Dr. Pablo M. Blazquez Gamez obtained his Ph.D. in vestibular and cerebellar physiology at Washington University (St. Louis) and Seville University (Spain). He received his postdoctoral training in basal ganglia physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he joined the…
Dr. Pam Jeter received her Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of California, Irvine, where she studied visual perceptual learning and psychophysics in a normal human population. She completed her post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Wilmer Eye Institute. Her…
Dr. Pat Manos earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Wayne State University, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Riverside. She completed her post-doctoral work in neurochemistry at UCLA focused on brain energy metabolism in the developing brain. Prior to joining…
Dr. Shan Wang received his Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry at Oregon State University in Corvallis, and he did postdoctoral training at the Research Triangle Institute in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. After working in the biotech industry and pharmaceutical industry as a medicinal…
Dr. Shannon Sherman received her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Delaware. She then joined the J. Craig Venter Institute as the Director of Environmental Virology where her research focused on virus-host interactions…
Dr. Sharon Gubanich has served as an Assistant Director within the Division of Receipt and Referral (DRR) for 5 years. Prior to that, she was a referral officer for 5 years and a scientific review officer (SRO) for 20 years. Dr. Gubanich has extensive experience working on referral issues with NIH…
Dr. Low received her early education in Australia and Canada. Pursuing an interest in studying how animal behavior arises from brain physiology, she received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Northwestern University. Her thesis work studying circadian rhythmic behavior in Clock mutant chimeric mice…
Dr. Shilpakala Ketha obtained her Ph.D. in microbial genetics from the University of Madras, which focused on the inactivation of DNA gyrases in bacteria through small molecules and antisense RNA. Following this, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA…
Dr. Shinako Takada received her Ph.D. in basic medical science from the University of Tokyo in Japan, where she studied mechanisms of hepatitis B virus-induced hepatocarcinogenesis. Her post-doctoral research in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley…