Gross To Lead NIAID Branch
Dr. Michael Gross
has joined NIAID's Division of AIDS as chief of
the Prevention Sciences Branch in the Vaccine and Prevention
Research Program. He will oversee the HIV Prevention Trials
Network, Women and Infants Transmission Study and other
biomedical and behavioral prevention research initiatives. He comes
to NIH from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,
where he was a consultant for both the HIV Vaccine Trials Network
coordinating center and the HIV Prevention Trials Network
statistical and data management center. Prior to that, for 11 years,
he was affiliated with Abt Associates, Inc., located in Cambridge,
Mass., and Bethesda, most recently as project director and
co-investigator for the domestic component of NIAID's HIV
Network for Prevention Trials. Gross also served as coordinator of
the behavioral reinforcement program in the AIDS bureau of the
Massachusetts department of health. During his academic career, he
was assistant professor of the history of science at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Mass.
Nelson Joins Center for Scientific Review
Dr. Janet E. Nelson
has joined the Center for Scientific Review as
the new scientific review administrator of the special reviews study
section, which reviews small business innovation research grant
applications in the areas of drug discovery and drug delivery for the
biophysical and chemical sciences integrated review group. She
comes from the American Chemical Society, where she managed
scientific review and administered research grants as a program
officer for the Petroleum Research Fund. Nelson received her Ph.D.
in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and
conducted synthetic and mechanistic studies of organometallic
complexes as a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National
Laboratory.
Mittelman To Manage VRC Operations
Abe Mittelman
has joined the NIH Vaccine Research Center as
associate director for management and operations. He oversees a
broad range of activities, including program planning and evaluation;
policy analysis; financial management; technology transfer;
information systems and technology development; support and
evaluation activities; human resources management; acquisitions;
facility development; and administrative management. Prior to his
appointment to the VRC, Mittelman served as managing director of
a consultant group to NIAID's research programs, and as a
regulatory scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has
managed technical, administrative, and budgetary activities for
cross-cutting biomedical and health research programs.
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