KUH Training Portfolio:
• Institutional training grants for renal and urology programs
• Individual NRSA fellowships for renal and urological research
• Career development awards (K awards and K99/R00) for renal and urological research
• R03 small grant program for K-awardees in renal and urological research
KUH Renal Biochemistry Portfolio:
• HIV-related disease/investigations
• Basic polycystic kidney disease including inherited and acquired forms of polycystic kidney disease, nephronophthisis, tuberous sclerosis, Von Hippel-Lindau Disease and Bardet-Beidel syndrome. Portfolio includes but is not limited to: role of ciliary function in cystic disease, development of animal models of cystic kidney disease, development of new therapeutic approaches, genetics, and pathogenesis of cystic disease
• Assist management of HALT-PKD, a multicenter clinical trial to test interventions that may be effective in slowing kidney growth in patients suffereing from polycystic kidney disease
• Assist management of CRISPII, a prospective cohort study to determine whether changes in anatomic characteristics of kidneys as measured by magnetic resonance imaging are reliable surrogate measures for disease progression
Trans-NIDDK:
• Member of Genomics Working Group
• Member of Transition Committee (for grant mechanisms that transition such as K99/R00 or R21/R33)
• Member of NIDDK Training Program Directors (TPD) group
• TPD representative to budget committee (FY2007)
Trans-NIH:
• Data Research Resource Sharing (DARES)
• Founding member of Scientific Program and Review Interest Group (SPRIG)
• Roadmap Initiatives:
NIDDK representative on Project Team for Molecular Imaging
NIDDK representative for Molecular Libraries Steering Committee
Science Officer for Molecular Libraries Assay Development
• Roadmap – CTSA Training and Education Subcommittee
B.S. Biology University of Southern California (1978)
Research Technician for Max Delbrück, California Institute of Technology (1978-1980)
Ph.D. Biochemistry University of Virginia (1984)
Postdoctoral Fellow Oregon State University (1984-1987)
Research Associate University of California at San Francisco (1987-1989)
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Old Dominion University, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry (1989-1995)
Associate Professor of Biochemistry (tenured), Old Dominion University (1995-1999)
Director, Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program, Old Dominion University/Eastern Virginia Medical School (1998-1999)
Scientific Review Administrator, NIGMS, Office of Scientific Review (1999-2005)