Human Virome Program
Human Virome Program
NIH Working Group
This is the trans-NIH Working Group that oversees the development, implementation, communication, and assessment of the NIH Common Fund program.
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.
- Emmeline Edwards, Ph.D.
Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) - Daniel Gallahan, 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.
Working Group Coordinator:
- Stacy Carrington-Lawrence, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Division of Aging Biology
National Institute on Aging (NIA) - Hye-Sook Kim, Ph.D.
Program Director
Basic and Mechanistic Research in Complementary and Integrative Health Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) - Amanda Melillo, Ph.D.
Chief
Integrative Biology & Infectious Diseases Branch
Director
Oral Opportunistic Pathogens & Viral Disease Program
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) - Leia Novak, Ph.D.
Progam Officer
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Common Fund Program Leader:
- Becky Miller, Ph.D.
Program Leader
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Points of Contact:
- David Bollweg
Business Operations and Analysis Contact
Management Analyst
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Sonynka Ngosso, M.S., M.B.A
Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Communications Contact
Scientific Program Manager
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Members:
The Working Group Members are staff from multiple NIH Institutes and Centers who provide input from their Institute or Center’s perspective.
- Beena Akolkar, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolic Diseases
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - Rudy Alarcon, Ph.D.
Program Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Liliana Brown, Ph.D.
Director
Office of Genomics and Advanced Technologies
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Phil Daschner, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Alison Deckhut-Augustine, Ph.D.
Branch Chief
Basic Immunology Branch
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Roberto Flores-Munguia, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H.
Program Director
Division of Aging Biology
National Institute on Aging (NIA) - Katherine Kim, M.A.
Scientific Program Analyst
Division of Aging Biology
National Institute on Aging (NIA) - Shilpa Kulkarni, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Laurel Kuxhaus, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Gerard Lacourciere, Ph.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Roger Little, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Division of Neuroscience and Behavior
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Joy Liu, M.D.
Program Officer
Division of Lung Diseases
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Dwayne Lunsford, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Digestive Diseases & Nutrition
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - Sai Majji, Ph.D.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICCHD) - Aron Marquitz, Ph.D.
Program Director
Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Program
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) - George McKie, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Program Director
Corneal Disease and Ocular Infection, Inflammation, and Immunology, Division of Extramural Research
National Eye Institute (NEI) - Tamara McNealy, Ph.D.
Director
Oral Microbiota & Bacterial Disease Program
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) - Emmanuel Mongodin, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Lung Diseases
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Amy Palin, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Heiyoung Park, Ph.D.
Program Director
Scleroderma, Fibrosis, and Autoinflammatory Disease Program
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) - Courtney Petersen, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Analyst
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) - Lita Proctor, Ph.D.
Special Volunteer - Betsy Read-Connole, Ph.D.
Head - Cancer Etiology Section
Division of Cancer Biology
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Michael Reddy, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) - Mugdha Samant, Ph.D.
Special Assistant to the CEO
All of Us Research Program
Office of the Director - Vicky Shanmugam, M.B.B.S., M.R.C.P., F.A.C.R., C.C.D.
Director
Office of Autoimmune Disease Research in the Office of Research on Women’s Health (OADR-ORWH) - Anjali Singh, Ph.D.
Program Officer & Contracting Officer Representative
Division of AIDS
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Pothur Srinivas, Ph.D.
Deputy Associate Director
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Mulualem E. Tilahun, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator
Division of Aging Biology
National Institute on Aging (NIA) - Mukesh Verma, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Branch Chief, Methods and Technologies Branch
Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Shimian Zou, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
