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Dr. Sarita Sastry
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…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Ms. Bonnie Ellis
As Executive Officer, Ms. Ellis oversees financial management, committee management, procurement, management analysis services, and administrative services that enable CSR to fulfill its mission. Ms. Ellis has a wealth of experience at the NIH, beginning in 1989. She has held a range of positions…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Alena Savonenko
Dr. Alena Savonenko obtained her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland. Later, she continued her post-doctoral education at the Johns Hopkins University.…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Eugene Carstea
Dr. Eugene Carstea serves as Chief of the Respiratory, Cardiac, and Circulatory Sciences Review Branch (RCCS RB). Dr. Eugene Carstea is the Chief of CSR's Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences (CVRS) Integrated Review Group. He earned his Ph.D. in microbiology (molecular biology) from Clemson…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Katherine Malinda
Dr. Katherine Malinda serves as Chief of the Integrative Vascular Biology and Hematology Review Branch (IVBH RB). Dr. Katherine Malinda received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in biological sciences, and was then awarded an intramural research training award to work at the National…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Laurent Taupenot
Dr. Laurent Taupenot’s academic background includes a B.S in biochemistry, cellular biology and physiology and a M.S in physiology from the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France, an advanced degree (DEA) in molecular and cellular biology and a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular neurobiology, both…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Investigator Career Stage Benefits
How does NIH describe an Early Stage Investigator (ESI)? What are the advantages of early stage investigator (ESI) status? 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…
Wed, 11/14/2018 - 11:36

Dr. Brittany Mason-Mah
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…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. June Gin
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…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Kate Fothergill
Dr. Kate Fothergill earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a concentration in social and behavioral sciences. She obtained her Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina. Prior to coming to NIH, she was an assistant scientist in the…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Lindsey Page
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…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Lisa Steele
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…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Ganesan Ramesh
Dr. Ganesan Ramesh obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, where his dissertation focused on the role of TGF-βs in pre-implantation embryo development and its regulation by steroid hormones in the uterus. His expertise is in kidney pathophysiology and…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Jennifer Villa
Dr. Jennifer C. Villa received a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and conducted her thesis research on gamma-secretase regulation of notch signaling in hypoxic breast cancer at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She received postdoctoral training…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Siddhartha Roy
Dr. Siddhartha Roy received his DrPH degree from Georgia Southern University in public health with a focus on community health behavior and education. He completed his post-doctoral training at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL, where he assisted in the development and implementation of community…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Conflict of Interest/Confidentiality
I’m extremely busy this semester and don’t see how I can finish all my critiques in time. What’s the harm in asking my senior postdoc to help me out? The rules say that I can’t share applications with someone who has not been officially designated to participate in the peer review meeting. How…
Thu, 05/21/2020 - 11:39

Dr. Khalida Shamim
Dr. Khalida Shamim earned her Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, where she focused on the total synthesis of natural products and published her research on stemona alkaloids as well as the quinone methide macrolide, kendomycin. She subsequently joined…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Tami Kingsbury
Dr. Tami Kingsbury received her Ph.D. in biology at Johns Hopkins University, studying yeast genetics and molecular biology. During her post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University, she studied calcium signaling in yeast and discovered a novel family of calcineurin regulators transferred from…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Training Resources for Early Career Scientists
Training Resources National Institutes of Health (NIH) Extramural Training Mechanisms Careers K Kiosk - Information about NIH Career Development Awards National Cancer Institute (NCI) Training opportunities and funding for cancer training and…
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 14:45

Dr. Anna Babakhanyan
Dr. Anna Babakhanyan received a master’s degree in biotechnology from San Jose State University and her Ph.D. in tropical medicine from the University of Hawaiʻi School of Medicine. She evaluated naturally acquired antibody responses to pregnancy-associated malaria vaccine candidates in Cameroonian…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Thomas Beres
Dr. Thomas Beres serves as Chief of the Health Services and Systems Review Branch (HSS RB).Dr. Thomas Beres received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Development from the University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Dallas, Texas. There he studied both bHLH and homeodomain…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Jui Pandhare
Dr. Jui Pandhare received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. Her thesis research was focused on functional characterization of microbial protease inhibitors for agricultural and industrial use. She then moved to the National Cancer Institute/NIH as a…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Ms. Sharon Sealey
Ms. Sharon Sealey is Chief of CSR’s Committee Management Branch (CMB). She and her staff of committee management specialists monitor CSR’s compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act and other laws, regulations, policies and guidelines that govern the operation and management of the center’s…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Alok Mulky
Dr. Alok Mulky received a M.Sc. in microbiology from the University of Mumbai, India, studying bioremediation, enzymology, antibiotic production, biofilms, and strain improvement. He then received his Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham studying the molecular…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

Dr. Kumud Singh
Dr. Kumud Singh serves as Chief of the Immunology and Infectious Diseases A Review Branch (IIDA RB).Dr. Kumud K. Singh earned his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of Delhi, India, where he studied the structure-functional properties of catalytic RNAs. His postdoctoral research at the…
Fri, 07/11/2025 - 13:16

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