Program Officer, Division of AIDS
Education:
B.A., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D., University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Biography
Diane Lawrence, Ph.D., is a Program Officer in the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. She oversees a portfolio of grants and has developed funding opportunities related to basic HIV persistence and immunology research, including the Martin Delaney Collaboratories for HIV Cure Research, as well as technology development for self-test HIV diagnostics. She also oversees the NIH HIV Reagent Program resource (www.HIVReagentProgram.org), providing no-cost research materials to investigators worldwide, and she has served on several NIH committees related to diagnostics research, career development and research training. Dr. Lawrence received her B.A. degree in Psychology and Biological Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester. Prior to joining NIAID, she studied neuroimmunology and neurotropic infections, and served as an Associate Director for the AIDS Research Program at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.