CSR Announces Several Additions to Staff
Dr. George Chacko has become the scientific review administrator of the Center for Scientific Review's new special review H study section, which examines applications in computational biology, such as those related to the Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative. Chacko trained as a veterinarian at the College of Veterinary Medicine in Bangalore, India. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry and immunology from Ohio State University. Chacko underwent postdoctoral training at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He then moved to the Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology at the National Cancer Institute. His scientific interests include intracellular signal transduction by immunoreceptors, analysis and visual representation of biological data, and receptor trafficking.
Dr. Jeffrey Elias recently joined the Center for Scientific Review as
new scientific review administrator of the behavioral and
biobehavioral processes 5 scientific review group. This group
examines applications for grants to study the clinical aspects of
emotional, behavioral and cognitive disorders in adults. Elias comes
to CSR from the University of Nevada in Reno. As director of
research for its Sanford Center for Aging, he conducted independent
research on health issues and functional aging and coordinated a
diverse portfolio of basic and behavioral research. He previously
was a professor of psychology at Texas Tech University in
Lubbock.
Dr. Luci Roberts
was appointed to the Center for Scientific Review
as scientific review administrator for the behavioral and
biobehavioral processes 1 study section. She comes from NICHD;
for the past 4 years she was a fellow in its Laboratory of
Comparative Ethology, where she studied the neuroendocrinology of
social bonding and parental behavior in nonhuman primates. She
earned her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Maryland,
studying the effects of perinatal exposure to steroids on parental
behavior in prairie voles. She then accepted a postdoctoral position
at the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., expanding her
research in studies of the reproductive physiology and behavior of
prairie and meadow voles.
Dr. Sherry Stuesse
has joined the Center for Scientific Review as a
scientific review administrator of the brain disorders and clinical
neuroscience 5 study section and the brain disorders and clinical
neuroscience fellowship study section. She comes to CSR from the
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, where she was
a professor in its neurobiology and pharmacology department. Her
research there focused on the central nervous system pathways that
mediate cardiac function and on brain stem and spinal cord
organization. She also studied neurochemical mechanisms related to
chronic neuropathic pain. Stuesse received her Ph.D. in biology
from the State University of New York in Albany, studying
neurotransmission at the junction of motor neurons and skeletal
muscle cells.
Dr. Denise Wiesch
has moved to the Center for Scientific Review to
be scientific review administrator for its epidemiology and disease
control 2 study section. She comes from NIAID, where she was a
program officer in the Division of Allergy, Immunology, and
Transplantation. She began her career at NIH after college, working
as a senior laboratory technician in the Neurogenetics Branch,
NIMH. She also worked on a contract to the National Library of
Medicine indexing scientific journal articles for Medline. Wiesch
then enrolled in Johns Hopkins University, where she received an
M.P.H. and a Ph.D. in genetic epidemiology. Her research focused
on the genetic basis of occupational allergy in workers at the
Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. She continued this
research at the Center for the Genetics of Complex Diseases at the
University of Maryland in Baltimore before joining NIAID.
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