Dr. John Schwab, an organic chemist whose area of expertise is mechanistic enzymology, has joined NIGMS as a program director in
the Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry,
where he will manage a portfolio of synthetic organic chemistry
grants. He comes to NIGMS from the FDA, where he served for 2
years as a review chemist in the Division of Oncology Drug Products.
Prior to the FDA, he spent 10 years as a professor in the department
of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy at Purdue University.
Dr. Christine Melchior
recently joined the Division of Research
Grants as scientific review administrator of the alcohol and
toxicology 1 and 3 study sections, Referral and Review Branch. She
had been a research pharmacologist at West Los Angeles Veterans
Administration Medical Center, with an appointment as a research
associate professor in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral
sciences at UCLA.
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