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Dr. Daya Jirage earned her Ph. D in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She then pursued post-doctoral research in infectious diseases at the Walter Reed Army of Research. Her research included work on cell cycle regulation in Plasmodium and on process…
Dr. Maureen Shuh received her Ph.D. at Brown University in biochemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology, and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in molecular retrovirology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at Frederick. After NCI, she was an assistant and associate professor at Loyola…
Dr. Ananya Paria is an infectious disease epidemiologist with a scientific background in HIV prevention and clinical research focusing on the therapeutics efficacy of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), investigating the comparative effectiveness of Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs)…
Dr. Maria DeBernardi 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 in the Interdisciplinary Molecular Sciences and Training review group for seven years. Her primary…
Dr. Amy Rubinstein serves as Chief of the Basic and Translational Cancer Review Branch (BTC RB).Dr. Rubinstein received her Ph.D. in biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying the molecular genetics of pollen development in maize. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie…
Dr. Anthony Foster received his Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda. He trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute before accepting a staff scientist position at the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC…
Dr. Atul Sahai. received a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Howard University. He was an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, before joining the NIH. The major focus of his research involved delineating the role of chronic local hypoxia in renal/…
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. Syed Quadri serves as Chief of the Cancer Diagnosis, Prevention & Therapeutics Review Branch (CDPT RB).
After earning a Ph.D. (1987) in bioorganic chemistry from George Washington University, Dr. Quadri has conducted basic and translational research focused on human cancers. He began his…
Dr. Tara Earl received her Ph.D. in social work at the University of Texas at Austin and post-doctoral training in health and mental health disparities and health services research through a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Minority/Diversity Supplement. Prior to joining CSR, Dr. Earl was…
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. 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. Jennifer Kielczewski received her Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from the University of Florida. She obtained post-doctoral training in immunoregulation of the eye at the National Eye Institute (NEI) in the Laboratory of Immunology. Prior to joining CSR, she held a staff scientist…
Dr. Rebecca Burgess came to CSR from a faculty position at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Maryland, where she taught microbiology, molecular genetics, and cell biology. Her research focused on the impact of chromatin structure on the DNA damage response, as well as best practices in the…
Dr. Sara Hargrave received her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from Purdue University, studying the neurobiology of feeding behavior and the impact of diet on blood-brain barrier integrity. She received post-doctoral training at American University, where she studied the effects of diet and drug…
Ms. Anne Tollett is an Extramural Support Assistant within the Division of Physiological and Pathological Sciences (DPPS). After completing an apprenticeship in administrative support and communication, Anne Tollett gained extensive experience as an executive assistant with the Department of…
Ms. Debbie Dawkins is the lead extramural support assistant for the Disease Control and Applied Immunology (DCAI) review branch within the Division of Physiological and Pathological Sciences (DPPS) at CSR. Ms. Dawkins began her government career working at the National Institute of Allergy and…
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. Jonathan Peterson received his Ph.D. in exercise physiology at West Virginia University School of Medicine. There he studied the role of fatty acid toxicity on attenuating muscle growth in severe obesity. He then became a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research at…
Dr. Liying Guo received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and completed her postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Immunology (LI), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Before joining…
Dr. Dolores Arjona earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemistry at the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid in Spain. She subsequently completed her postdoctoral training at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Neuro-Oncology Branch at NCI. Her main research efforts were focused on…
Dr. Simon Peron received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine, where he worked on the biophysical mechanisms subserving neural computations in insect vision. He received postdoctoral training at Janelia Farm Research Campus in large-scale two-photon calcium imaging of the mouse…
Dr. Stephanie Nagle Emmens earned her Ph.D. in speech, language and hearing at the University of Connecticut, investigating the role of the auditory centers of the brain in behavioral perception of complex auditory information. She joined the faculty at Towson University and also worked as a…
Dr. Tatiana Cohen obtained her Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, where she studied transcriptional regulation of muscle-specific genes.She continued her postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute, where she developed transgenic mouse models of human…
Dr. Zachary Bailey earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech where he studied the interactions of blast overpressure waves with biological systems. He pursued his post-doctoral training at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) through the National Research Council,…
