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Dr. Murali Ganesan received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Madras, India. After his postdoctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, he became an assistant professor of…
Dr. Matthew Oh received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Northwestern University. He subsequently completed his training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, where he remained and rose through the ranks to become a…
Dr. Nadeem Khan received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the North-Eastern Hill University, India. He received postdoctoral training at the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, and thereafter at the Geisel School of Medicine, NH, USA. He was promoted to research assistant professor and subsequently…
Dr. Nakia Brown received her Ph.D. in biopsychology from the University of Michigan. Her professional background includes experience in organizational and program evaluation within the public and private sectors. She has supported several NIH trans-agency initiatives focused on advancing community-…
Dr. Natalia Komissarova spent more than 15 years at the intramural program of the NIH; prior to that, she worked in the Public Health Research Institute, New York. She received her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Moscow State University (Russia). Dr.…
Dr. Neerja Kaushik-Basu received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Bombay University. Her postdoctoral training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, McGill University, Canada focused on structure-function…
Dr. Nesar Akanda received his M.D. and Ph.D. in neuroscience. After completing his Ph.D. at Karolinska and Linkoping University, Sweden, he joined the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he was an associate professor (research track). One of his research projects at UCF focused on the…
Dr. Nijaguna Prasad earned his master’s and Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Mysore, India, and completed postdoctoral training at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), where he investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN1)…
Dr. Nilkantha Sen earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Jadavpur University in India and completed postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Sen subsequently held faculty positions as an assistant professor at Augusta University and…
After Receiving a M.D. from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Dr. Nketi Forbang completed a General Surgery Internship at Howard University Hospital. This was followed by a T32-Fellowhip in Integrated Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School…
Dr. Noton Dutta earned his Ph.D. in microbiology from Jadavpur University, India, and subsequently completed postdoctoral research fellowships at Seoul National University, Tulane University, and Johns Hopkins University. He then joined the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins…
Dr. Zack Howard received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of South Carolina. Her research there focused on the molecular and structural chemistry of complement component eight. Before coming to the NIH, Dr. Howard conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson…
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…