Michele Russell-Einhorn
Michele Russell-Einhorn has joined the NIH Office for Protection
from Research Risks as director of regulatory affairs. She comes
from the Office of the General Counsel, HHS, where she served as
the legal ethics attorney for NIH since August 1991. Before that,
she lived in Massachusetts, where she practiced in the litigation
department of the law firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed and Gesmer
and later, in the City of Newton law department. Prior to leaving
OGC, she received an NIH Award of Merit for her work in the
Ethics Division.
Dr. John J. McGowan
Dr. John J. McGowan has been named deputy director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he
will provide leadership for scientific and extramural policy issues
and senior level interactions with other NIH components and the
NIH Office of the Director. A virologist, he started his NIH career
in 1986 as one of the first staff members in what is now NIAID's
Division of AIDS. He established the Developmental Therapeutics
Branch and served as its first chief. Later he became director of
the Basic Research and Development Program in the Division of
AIDS. In 1991, he was appointed director of NIAID's Division of
Extramural Activities. In that role, he was widely recognized for
designing and implementing reinvention experiments that
improved the grants process at both the institute and NIH levels.
The Mobile, Alabama, native received the NIH Director's Award
in 1991 for "superb leadership, resourcefulness and innovation."
Up to Top