Chief, Molecular HIV Host Interactions Section
Director, NIH Office of AIDS Research
Education:
Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, NY
Biography
Dr. Goodenow received her undergraduate degree in biology from Fordham University and her Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular oncology at the Sloan Kettering Institute, Dr. Goodenow was a visiting scientist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where she began her study of HIV.
Dr. Goodenow was a professor of pathology, immunology, and laboratory medicine at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where she held the Stephany W. Holloway University Endowed Chair for AIDS Research. She also was the Director of the Center for Research in Pediatric Immune Deficiency Diseases.
She served as the acting director of the Office for Research and Science in the U.S. Department of State, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and Office of Global Health Diplomacy. Dr. Goodenow was the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Science Fellowship at the State Department, where she served as senior science advisor in the Office of Economic Policy’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
Dr. Goodenow was appointed Associate Director for HIV/AIDS Research at NIH, and Director of the NIH Office of AIDS Research in 2016, coordinating the HIV/AIDS research agenda across NIH. She also is chief of the Molecular HIV Host Interactions Section in NIAID.
Dr. Goodenow is the recipient of the Gertrude and Herman Silver 24th Annual Lecture Award and the Wistar Institute’s Jonathan Lax Memorial Award.
She continues to invest in the next generation of scientists and has trained more than 50 doctoral and postdoctoral fellows. A respected, peer-reviewed author, Dr. Goodenow has published more than 100 articles and book chapters, in addition to serving as a reviewer for more than 10 journals.