Carter Named NIGMS Program Director
Dr. Anthony D. Carter recently joined the National Institute of
General Medical Sciences as a program director in the Division of
Genetics and Developmental Biology, where he will manage grants
dealing with chromosomal organization and gene regulation. He is a
molecular biologist who comes to NIGMS from the Center for
Scientific Review, where he had served as a scientific review
administrator since 1995. At CSR, he reviewed research grant and
fellowship applications in the areas of cell and molecular biology and
biotechnology resources. Carter has also maintained an interest in
science education outreach. Under an educational supplement grant
from the National Science Foundation, he created the KEYS
(Knowledge and Experience for Young Scientists) Outreach
Program to promote interactions between minority scientists and
elementary school students.
Einstein Joins CSR
Dr. Gillian Einstein has joined the Center for Scientific Review as
scientific review administrator of study section 2 in the molecular,
cellular, and developmental neurosciences integrated review group.
This section reviews grant applications pertaining to
neurodegenerative diseases. Einstein did a postdoctoral fellowship in
the department of neurobiology and physiology at Northwestern
University. She then went to Duke University as a research
associate in the anatomy department, becoming an assistant research
professor in the department of neurobiology in 1989. There, her
research was primarily on Alzheimer's disease and the effects of
estrogens on the aging brain. Einstein was also involved with student
programs and was a gifted teacher — she received the Duke
Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Nunn Accepts CSR Post
Dr. Michael Nunn
is the new scientific review administrator of the
molecular, cellular, and developmental neurosciences 6 study section
in the Center for Scientific Review. This study section reviews
applications pertaining to developmental neurobiology. As a pre- and
postdoctoral student in the department of molecular biology at the
University of California at Berkeley, he analyzed the genetic
structures of avian and murine leukemia and sarcoma viruses, and
discovered the ets oncogene. After 3 years postdoctoral training at
the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, he next spent 3 years as a
staff scientist at Pharmacia Genetic Engineering. In 1994, he
became a senior staff fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
NIMH, where he investigated the role of a viral gene product in the
pathogenesis of HIV-1.
Wolfe Is New CIO at NIAID
Dr. Laurence Wolfe has been named NIAID's chief information
officer and director of the institute's Office of Technology
Information Systems. He comes to NIH from the General Services
Administration, where he started his GSA career in 1989. He served
in various capacities, including director of the technology
advancement division, director of the strategic information
technology analysis division, and the information technology policy
division. He also held information technology positions at the U.S.
Defense Information Systems Agency, Immigration and
Naturalization Service and the Social Security Administration. Wolfe
is the author of journal articles on information technology and
coding theory as well as a chapter in the book Reinventing
Government in the Information Age.
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