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Dr. Victor Henriquez received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from The State University of New York at Stony Brook. He did his postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), where he trained in the neurological control of speech and swallowing while…
Dr. Victor Panchenko holds a Ph.D. in biological sciences from the National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine. Prior to joining CSR Dr. Panchenko was a Tech Transfer Project Manager at Amgen, Inc and worked on their first anticancer program small molecule KRAS inhibitor. Before that he worked as a…
Dr. Victoria Virador received her Ph.D. in food science from the University of California, Davis. She served as a staff scientist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where she conducted research in cell and stem cell biology, pigmentation, and the development of organoids and animal research…
Dr. Victoriya Volkova received her Ph.D. in veterinary epidemiology, minoring in statistics, from Mississippi State University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a research associate at the College of Veterinary Medicine of Cornell University. As an associate…
Dr. Vishakha Sharma received her Ph.D. in molecular medicine with a concentration in pharmacology and neuroscience from the George Washington University. Her dissertation was focused on investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD), a genetic…
Dr. Vivian Tang holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. After obtaining her degrees, she received postdoctoral training at the Harvard Medical School. Before joining CSR, Dr. Tang was a research assistant professor and…
Dr. Bogdanov obtained his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in 1999 at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine / City University of New York, where he studied molecular and cellular mechanisms that contribute to vessel reocclusion following coronary angioplasty. After…
Dr. Vonda Smith is an Assistant Director in the Division of Receipt and Referral (DRR) at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR).Prior to this position, she served as Scientific Review Officer(SRO) of the Small Business: Bioanalytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Biophysics, and Assay Development Study…
Dr. Wei-Qin Zhao serves as Chief of the Aging and Neurodegeneration Review Branch (AN RB).
Dr. Wei-Qin Zhao received her medical training from Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in China, and a Ph.D. in neurobiology from LaTrobe University in Australia. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow…
Dr. Weihua Luo received his Ph.D. in medical oncology from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and obtained his M.D. from Shanghai Second Medical University in China, where he worked as a surgeon as well as a cancer research scientist. Dr. Luo had postdoctoral training in the University…
Dr. Weiqun Li received his first MD degree at the Nanjing Medical University in China and his second one at the Freie University of Berlin in Germany. He did his postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute (NCI). He was an assistant professor…
Dr. Wenjuan Wang received her Ph.D. in population and reproductive health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Before joining CSR, she worked as the deputy director of research for the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program at ICF in Rockville, MD. While there, Dr. Wang…
Dr. Wenyan Han received her Ph.D. in neuropharmacology from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University in China, where she studied neuropeptides and drug addiction. She then completed postdoctoral research training at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the National Institute of…
Dr. Wing-Hang Tong obtained her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied the mechanism of the assembly of the tyrosyl radical-diiron (III) cofactor of E. coli ribonucleotide reductase using biophysical methods. As a postdoctoral fellow at the…
Dr. Yanming Bi received her Ph.D. in bone biology from Case Western University, School of Medicine. Her graduate work on orthopaedic implant loosening received the William Harris Award for outstanding research related to the hip and the Kappa Delta Award for excellence in orthopaedic research.…
Dr. Yi Liu earned his Ph.D. in molecular microbiology and immunology and received his postdoctoral training in developmental genetics from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining CSR, he was an associate professor of research and the principal investigator and co-investigator of NIH…
Dr. Yingli Fu received her Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed her post-doctoral training in radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Prior to her role at CSR, Dr. Fu was an assistant professor of radiology at Johns Hopkins…
Dr. Yuanna Cheng serves as Chief of the Imaging, Surgery, and Bioengineering Review Branch (ISB RB).
Dr. Yuanna Cheng earned a M.D. in Medicine at Tongji Medical University in China and a Ph.D. in physiology at Medical College of Oita in Japan. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the…
Dr. Feng received her Ph.D. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and completed postdoctoral training in genetics and developmental biology at Harvard Medical School. She took faculty positions at Northwestern University and then at Uniformed Services University. During her academic research…
Dr. Yujing Liu received his doctoral degree in molecular genetics from Syracuse University. His research focused on lysosomal storage diseases and neurodegenerative disorders. He also investigated angiogenesis by using mouse models. Dr. Liu did his postdoctoral training in human genetic…