Heilman Named DMID Director
Dr. Carole A. Heilman
was recently named director of NIAID's Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID). For the
past 3 years, she has been deputy director of the Division of AIDS
(DAIDS). She joined NIAID in 1986 as a program officer in DMID
and served as chief of its Respiratory Disease Branch from 1988 to
1996. She completed postdoctoral training and served as a senior
staff fellow at NCI, where she carried out molecular biology
research related to the regulation of gene expression during cancer
development. At NIAID, her many accomplishments include
coordinating the development of acellular pertussis vaccines while
chief of the Respiratory Disease Branch. During her tenure as
DAIDS deputy director, she established creative research programs
such as the Innovation Grants Program for AIDS Vaccine
Discovery.
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