Co-Chairs:

Co-Chairs are Institute or Center (IC) directors or IC senior staff who lead the Working Group and have the authority to approve major activities and funding actions.

• Joni L. Rutter, Ph.D.
  Acting Director
  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

• Dinah S. Singer, Ph.D.
  Director
  Division of Cancer Biology
  National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Leadership Team & Points of Contact:

Coordinators, Program Leaders, and Project Team Leaders serve as the day to day leadership for the program and the Working Group. Also included here are points of contact for areas of program management.

Members:

The Working Group Members are staff from multiple NIH Institutes and Centers who provide input from their Institute or Center’s perspective.

• Alexandra Ainsztein, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics
  National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
   
• Preethi Chander, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Salivary Biology and Immunology Program
  National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
   
• Aniruddha Ganguly, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
  National Cancer Institute (NCI)
   
• Daniel Gossett, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
   
• Max Guo, Ph.D.
  Chief, Genetics and Cell Biology Branch
  Division of Aging Biology
  National Institute on Aging (NIA)
    
• Nic Johnston, M.S.
  Scientific Program Analyst
  National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
   
• Lillian S. Kuo, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Cancer Biology
  National Cancer Institute (NCI)
   
• Tania B. Lombo, Ph.D.
  Program Officer
  Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)
  Office of the Director (OD)
  National Institutes of Health (NIH)
   
• George A. McKie, D.V.M., Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Ocular Infection, Inflammation, and Immunology
  National Eye Institute (NEI)
   
• Margaret Ochocinska, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Translational Blood Science and Resources Branch
  Division of Blood Diseases and Resources
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
   
• Daniel Shaughnessy, Ph.D.
  Health Science Administrator
  Exposure, Response, and Technology Branch
  Division of Extramural Research and Training 
  National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
   
• Dobrila (Doda) Rudnicki, Ph.D.
  Program Officer
  National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS)
   
• Anna Sadusky, Ph.D.
  Program Officer
  Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases (KUH)
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
   
• John Satterlee, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Epigenetics, Model Organism Genetics, Functional Genomics
  National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
   
• Shurjo K. Sen, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Genome Sciences
  National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
   
• Jessica Smith, Ph.D.
  Scientific Review Officer
  Cell Biology Integrated Review Group
  Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
   
• Pothur R. Srinivas, Ph.D., M.P.H.
  Program Director
  Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)