Two Join CSR
Dr. Narayani Ramakrishnan
has recently joined the Division of
Receipt and Referral in the Center for Scientific Review. In her new
position as assistant chief, she will be involved in all aspects related
to the assignment of applications for scientific merit review and for
funding consideration. She comes to CSR from the department of
applied cellular radiobiology, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research
Institute, where she was a visiting scientist from 1989-1994 and a
research biologist from 1994-1999. Her expertise includes both basic
and clinical biomedical research as well as interdisciplinary studies in
radiation biology, biochemistry, oncology, cell biology, molecular
biology and immunology.
public policy.
Dr. Lawrence Yager
recently joined the Center for Scientific
Review as a health scientist administrator in the infectious diseases
and microbiology integrated review group. His expertise is in the
areas of microbial genetics and molecular biology; he will be
responsible for managing the review of small business innovation
research and small business technology transfer applications
assigned to the group. In 1991, he became a tenured associate
professor in the department of biology at Temple University, where
for the past 14 years he conducted research concerned with
deducing mechanisms involved in the initiation of asexual
sporulation and development in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus
nidulans.
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