CFDE Team

This is the team that oversees the development, implementation, communication, and assessment of the Common Fund program.

Leadership Team & Points of Contact:

The Program Leader and Project Team Leaders serve as the day to day leadership for the program. 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 and from their role as technical leads for CFDE or Common Fund programs engaged with CFDE.

• Karlie R. Sharma, Ph.D.
  Technical lead: CFDE Data Resource Center (DRC) and IDG
  Program Director
  Office of Drug Development Partnership Programs
  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) 
• Valerie Cotton, B.Sc.
  Technical lead: Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Program
  Kids First Program Manager
  Developmental Biology and Structural Variation Branch
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) 
• Ishwar Chandramouliswaran 
  Subject Matter Expert
  Lead, FAIR Data and Resources
  Office of Data Science Strategy
  Office of the Director
• Tanja Davidsen, Ph.D.
  Subject Matter Expert
  Biomedical Informatics Specialist
  Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology
  National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Jyoti Dayal, M.S.
  Technical lead: GTEx
  Program Director 
  Division of Genomic Medicine
  National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
• Valentina Di Francesco 
  Subject Matter Expert
  Director 
  Office of Genomic Data Science
  National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
• Susan Gregurick, Ph.D. 
  Subject Matter Expert
  Director 
  Office of Data Science Strategy
  Office of the Director
• Sean Hanlon, Ph.D.
  Technical Lead: 4DN
  Acting Deputy Director
  Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives 
  National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Christine Happel, Ph.D.
  Technical lead: ExRNA
  Scientific Program Analyst
  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
• T. Kevin Howcroft, Ph.D.
  Technical lead: SenNet
  Program Director
  Division of Cancer Biology
  Cancer Immunology and Hematology Branch
  National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Chamelli Jhappan, Ph.D.
  Technical lead: SenNet
  Program Director
  Division of Cancer Biology
  National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Ajay Pillai, Ph.D.
  Technical lead: LINCS and IDG
  Program Director
  Division of Genome Sciences
  National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
• Rebecca Rosen, Ph.D.
  Subject Matter Expert
  Director
  Office of Data Science and Sharing
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)  
• Shurjo K. Sen, Ph.D.
  Technical lead: Bridge2AI
  Program Director
  Division of Genome Sciences
  National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
• Douglas M. Sheeley, Sc.D.
  Technical lead: Glycosciences
  Deputy Director
  Office of Strategic Coordination
  Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
  Office of the Director
  National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Pothur R. Srinivas, Ph.D., M.P.H.
  Technical lead: Metabolomics and IDG
  Deputy Associate Director
  Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program
  National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Ashley Xia, M.D., Ph.D. 
  Technical lead: SPARC
  Program Director
  Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)