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After completing a Ph.D. in population genetics from Oregon State University, Dr. Mollie Manier received an NIH K99 Ruth Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship to study gene expression and sperm morphological variation in sea urchin at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University. She then…
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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…
Dr. Marisa Srivareerat received a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Houston. Dr. Srivareerat began her career supporting the Biological Sciences Division at Aerospace Innovations Group in Albuquerque, where she oversaw clinical operations and research initiatives. She then moved on to…
Dr. Reigh-Yi Lin received her Ph.D. in molecular pharmacology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed post-doctoral training at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Lin was an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology of the Mount Sinai…
Dr. Santanu Banerjee received his Ph.D. in life sciences from Bose Institute, Calcutta, India and did a brief postdoctoral training at University of Rochester Medical Center (NY), working on the role of transcription factors on T-cell differentiation. From there, he to Massachusetts General…
Dr. Sarita Sastry received her Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she studied the role of integrins in muscle differentiation. She completed her post-doctoral work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where she studied the regulation of protein…
How does NIH describe an Early Stage Investigator (ESI)?
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How does NIH describe an Early Stage Investigator (ESI)?
An ESI, or Early Stage Investigator, is a Program Director / Principal Investigator (PD/PI) who has completed…
Dr. Stoica received her Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., studying the role of vitamin D3 and growth factors on estrogen receptor (ER) regulation in breast cancer. As a postdoctoral fellow, she extended her studies to the role of…
Dr. Angela Thrasher received her Ph.D. in health behavior from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Thrasher completed postdoctoral training in health disparities, social determinants of health, and minority aging research at the University of…
Dr. Brittany Mason-Mah received her Ph.D. in psychiatry from King’s College London, working in both the Institute of Psychiatry and the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, with an emphasis on physiology and blood-brain barrier regulation. She then completed postdoctoral training in preclinical and…
Dr. Charlene Repique received her Ph.D. in biomedical science from Northeastern University, where she studied melanoma cell integrin-extracellular matrix interactions. She obtained postdoctoral training in preclinical development of DNA-based tuberculosis vaccines at the U.S. Food and Drug…
Dr. Devon Oskvig received a Ph.D. in Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience from Georgetown University and completed her postdoctoral training in the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program. She identified novel cellular and molecular mechanisms by which maternal infection alters…
Dr. Hernandez-Ochoa received an M.D. degree in general medicine and surgery and a Ph.D. degree in neurophysiology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. During his postdoctoral training at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he investigated the role of calcium signals and…
Dr. Frederique Yiannikouris received her Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of Clermont Ferrand I in France and completed a post-doctoral training in obesity and cardiovascular diseases at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. After her post-doctoral work, she became an…
Dr. John H. Laity received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cornell University. Dr. Laity then trained at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California specializing in biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications in structural biology. He then took a faculty position at…
Dr. Drake Morgan completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Experimental and Biological Psychology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and received postdoctoral training in the Department of Physiological and Pharmacology at Wake Forest University. Dr. Morgan then established a…
Dr. June Gin received a Ph.D. in resource policy and behavior from the University of Michigan's School of Environment and Sustainability, focusing on environmental sociology. Before joining CSR, she was a research health scientist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Emergency…
Dr. Lee Klinkenberg received his Ph.D. in biological sciences from the University at Albany, SUNY. He completed post-doctoral training at the Tuberculosis Research Center in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Subsequently, Dr. Klinkenberg became research faculty at Johns Hopkins and…
Dr. Lindsey Page, MPH, ACSM-CEP, received her Ph.D. in patient-oriented research from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she studied the relationship between cognitive decline, frailty, and physical activity and coordinated exercise trials aimed to improve cognition, fitness…
Dr. Lisa Steele serves as Chief of the Epidemiology and Population Health Review Branch (EPH RB).Dr. Lisa Steele received her Ph.D. in immunology from Harvard University with an emphasis on CD8 T cell responses to microbial pathogens. Following her graduate work, she entered CDC as a CDC/APHL…