Dr. Lisa Spain : NIDDK

Dr. Lisa Spain


DIVISION DIABETES, ENDOCRINOLOGY, & METABOLIC DISEASES
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Building 2DEM, Room 695
6707 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-451-9871

Email: spainl@mail.nih.gov

Current Position:
Program Director, Immunobiology of Type 1 Diabetes and Autoimmune Endocrine Diseases

Current Portfolio/Responsibilities:

1)  Maintain and foster type 1 diabetes and autoimmune endocrine diseases research through a portfolio of grants on the pathogenic mechanisms and etiology of autoimmunity.  
 2)  Oversee immunological aspects of the activities of Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet, an  international consortium of clinical centers and affiliate sites for clinical trials for the prevention and reversal of type 1 diabetes

3) Work with Dr. Guillermo Arreaza-Rubin on management of a contract for testing agents of prevention/ reversal of type 1 diabetes in rodent models of diabetes

 



Previous Training and Experience:

Ph.D.., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1983-1990)

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University Department of Cellular and Molecular

      Biology, Cambridge, MA (1991-1993)

Assistant Professor, Wistar Institute, and Wistar Institute Assistant Professor of

      Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 

      (1993-1999)

Scientist II, Holland Laboratories for Biomedical Sciences, American Red Cross and

      Associate Professor, Immunology Department, George Washington University

            Medical School (1999-2004)


Committees/ Working Groups:

NIH Autoimmune Disease Coordinating Committee (NIDDK Rep)

NIDDK Clinical Sciences Working Group
NIDDK/DEM Autoimmunity/Transplantation Working Group

NIDDK/DEM Resources and Technologies Administrative Team


Other Activities:
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Immunology, International Immunology, Journal of Experimental Medicine

Intramural Research

Assist in analysis of autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes clinical trials, Diabetes Branch, NIDDK, Branch Chief, David Harlan, M.D.

Page last updated: September 01, 2007

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