Team: Division of Other Transactions Management (DOTM)

Functional Area: Award Management and Tracking; Other Transactions

Programs: Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS)

Amber Puga joined the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC) Division of Other Transactions Management (DOTM) in June 2023. Prior to joining NIH Amber was a grant manager at CRDF Global who managed NIH RePORT and Fogarty Grants and World Health Organization Grants. Amber served as a Budget and Grant Manager with Refugee Services of Texas where she oversaw Office of Victims Crimes Grant with the Department of Justice. Amber earned her undergraduate degree at Our Lady of the Lake University the BA in Philosophy and English and Master of Science in Public Administration at Trinity University.

Team: Transformational Science and Discovery (TSD)

Functional Area: Award Management and Tracking; Budget and Reporting; Other Transactions; Program Evaluation and Analysis; Program Strategic Planning

Programs: Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program; Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE); Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC)

Dr. Felicia Qashu joined the Office of Strategic Coordination in 2016 to serve as other transaction (OT) officer in the Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) Program. Dr. Qashu earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2009 from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), studying neuroanatomical and electrophysiological changes in the amygdala in a rat model of epilepsy. In 2010, she joined the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) as a scientific advisor, and then became the DVBIC deputy director of research in 2013. At DVBIC, Dr. Qashu was responsible for overseeing a clinical research program on traumatic brain injury (TBI) in military service members and veterans. She maintains active collaborations in TBI, focusing on concussion assessment, acute clinical management, and recovery.

Team: Division of Other Transactions Management (DOTM)

Functional Area: Other Transactions

Programs: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM AHEAD); NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability Program (NCPI)

Brianna Quinn joined the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC)-Division of Other Transactions Management (DOTM) as an Other Transactions Agreements Specialist in July 2023. Prior to joining OSC, she was a Contract Specialist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and prior to NOAA Ms. Quinn worked for various federal agencies in both financial and program analysis. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from the University of South Florida and her Juris Doctorate from Stetson University College of Law.

Team: Catalytic Data Resources (CDR)

Functional Area: Program Management

Programs: Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI); Common Fund Data Ecosystem(CFDE); Extracellular RNA Communication (ExRNA); Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP); Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG); Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program (KOMP2); Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS); Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC)

Dr. Haluk Resat joined the Office of Strategic Coordination in 2020, where he helps to integrate data from multiple Common Fund programs within the Common Fund Data Ecosystem. Previously, Dr. Resat was a program director in the Division of Biophysics, Biomedical Technology, and Computational Biosciences (BBCB) at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). In this role, he managed research and training grants in bioinformatics, computational biology, data science, mathematical biology, systems biology, and biotechnology areas. Before joining NIGMS/NIH, Dr. Resat was an associate professor in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University. He has also worked as a senior research scientist at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and was an associate professor at Koç University in Turkey.

Dr. Resat earned a B.S. in physics and electrical engineering from Bogaziçi University in Turkey and a Ph.D. in physics from Stony Brook University. He was a postdoctoral fellow both at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York and the University of California, San Diego.

Team: Division of Other Transactions Management (DOTM)

Functional Area: Other Transactions

Programs: Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI); Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC)

Brandon Riley joined the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC)-Division of Other Transactions Management (DOTM) as an Other Transactions Agreements Specialist in July 2023. Prior to joining OSC, Mr. Riley held a grants management positions at USDA-ARS. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in mass communications from Newberry College in South Carolina and his master’s degree in project management from University of Maryland University College.

Team: Office Management Team

Functional Area: Office Management

Programs: Administrative & Budgetary Management; All Common Fund Programs; Contract Oversight; Management Analysis; Office-wide Engagement; Physical Space Management; Administrative & Budgetary Management; Workforce Planning & Development

Imari Riley joined the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC) in July 2023. She serves as a Program Analyst. Prior to joining OSC, she worked for the FDA as an Operations Research Analyst. She earned her B.S. in Biology from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and a Master’s in Health Administration from the University of Maryland College Park.

Team: Transformational Science and Discovery (TSD)

Functional Area: Team Management

Programs: 4D Nucleome (4DN); Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS); Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet); Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa); Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans (MoTrPAC); Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program; Somatic Mosaicism Across Human Tissues (SMaHT); Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC); Transformative High Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy (CryoEM)

As the Assistant Director for TSD, Ananda will oversee multiple Common Fund programs. Ananda has been at the OSC/NIH for seven years and during this time, he has led several Common Fund programs and written commentaries describing the outcomes of these programs, providing the OSC/NIH perspective on program management as well as the science of the programs. He maintains his scientific credentials in part through continued work in the lab as an Adjunct Investigator in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology at the National Institute on Aging, focusing on transcriptional signatures associated with immune-cell activation. He also serves on the editorial board of multiple journals related to his research. Prior to joining the NIH, Ananda was an Associate Professor at Tufts University where he maintained his lab and directed the Biomedical Program in Genetics. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Nebraska and did postdoctoral training at The Rockefeller University. He is also committed to OSC/DPCPSI efforts to foster diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in our workplace.

Team: Division of Other Transactions Management (DOTM)

Functional Area: Other Transactions

Programs: Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC)

Melody A. Salcedo joined the Division of Other Transactions Management (DOTM) within the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC), in October 2022. She serves as an Other Transactions Agreements and Policy Specialist contractor. She earned her Juris Doctorate at St. Thomas University School of Law and her B.A. from State University of New York at Albany. Prior to joining the Common Fund, she worked for The Department of Off-Street Parking of the City of Miami and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in their respective legal and enforcement departments.

Team: Division of Other Transactions Management (DOTM)

Functional Area: Other Transactions; Science Policy

Programs: All Common Fund Programs for Other Transaction Activities

Ms. Shariati has 36 years of experience in the Federal Government working on contracts, grants, and other transactions. She has an MBA from the University of Scranton.

Team: Operations Team

Functional Area: Award Management and Tracking; Budget and Reporting; Program Evaluation and Analysis

Programs: Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS); Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans (MoTrPAC); Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program; Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity

Dr. Jason Shockey earned his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studied the ethylene signal transduction pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana. After a post-doctoral fellowship at George Washington University, he joined the NIH in 2007 as an Administrative Lab Manager with the National Eye Institute. In 2019 he was accepted into the NIH Management Intern Program, where he learned several administrative areas including budget, grants management, evaluation, and program management. Dr. Shockey joined the Office of Strategic Coordination as a Program/Management Analyst in 2021.