NIAID New Innovators Awards Program and Review Staff

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Contact the program staff for more information about scientific and programmatic related questions.

Contact scientific review staff for questions about the application process. 

Program and Review Staff

Timothy A. Gondré-Lewis, Ph.D.

Program Officer, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation

Contact: tglewis@niaid.nih.gov

Education:

A.B., Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Ph.D., Medical College of Virginia – Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Dr. Gondré-Lewis received his A.B. from Oberlin College and Ph.D. from the Medical College of Virginia – Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed his training as a post-doctoral fellow at the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, N.Y. After his post-doctoral fellowship Dr. Gondré-Lewis joined the faculty at York College of The City University of New York teaching and maintaining an active...

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Diane Lawrence, Ph.D.

Program Officer, Division of AIDS

Contact: diane.lawrence2@nih.gov

Education:

B.A., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Ph.D., University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

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...

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Susana Mendez, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Program Officer, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Contact: susana.mendez@nih.gov

Education:

D.V.M., Ph.D., University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Susana Mendez, D.V.M., Ph.D. is a Program Officer in the Tuberculosis and other Mycobacteria Diseases section of the Respiratory Diseases Branch (RDB) at the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID). She received a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine degree (D.V.M.) and a Ph.D. degree in veterinary science at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. Dr. Mendez joined the NIH in 1999...

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Vanitha Raman, Ph.D.

Scientific Review Officer, Division of Extramural Activities

Contact: vanitha.raman@nih.gov

Education:

B.Sc., University of Madras, Chennai, India

Masters in Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India

Ph.D. National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Vanitha Raman is a Scientific Review Officer at the Immunology Review Branch in the Scientific Review Program at NIAID. Dr. Raman received her B.Sc. degree in Zoology from the University of Madras and her Masters in Life Sciences from Pondicherry University. Her interest in immunology stemmed from an article on the immune response to self vs. non-self and consequently led her to apply for a Ph.D...

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