The following individuals may be contacted for information about the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored CFAR program. For general information about the program, including scientific issues, management issues, or issues on cores related to NIAID, please contact Dr. Eric Refsland. For issues related to program interests of other NIH Institutes participating in the co-funding of the CFAR program, please contact program representatives for each Institute.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Eric Refsland, Ph.D
CFAR Team Lead, Program Officer, Basic Sciences Program
Division of AIDS - Elaine Wong, M.S.
CFAR Deputy Team Lead, Program Officer, Basic Sciences Program
Division of AIDS - Annalise Schoonmaker, M.S.
Health Specialist, Basic Sciences Program
Division of AIDS
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Geraldina Dominguez, Ph.D.
Director, AIDS Malignancy Program
Office of HIV and AIDS Malignancy - Elizabeth Read-Connole, Ph.D.
Program Director, Viral Oncogenesis
Cancer Etiology Section Chief
Cancer Immunology, Hematology, and Etiology Branch, Division of Cancer Biology
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Emmanuel F. Mongodin, PhD
Program Director, Lung Response to Pulmonary Infections, Microbiome and HIV/AIDS
Lung Biology and Disease Branch
Division of Lung Diseases - DaRel Barksdale, M.P.H.
Scientific Program Manager [C]
NHLBI HIV/AIDS Program
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Basil A. Eldadah, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Officer, Geriatrics Branch
Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology - Stacy Carrington-Lawrence, Ph.D.
Deputy Director Division of Aging Biology
Division of Aging Biology (DAB)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Denise A. Russo, Ph.D.
Deputy, Maternal and Pediatric Infectious Disease Branch - Eric Lorenzo, Ph.D.
Program Officer, Maternal and Pediatric Infectious Disease Branch
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - Samantha Calabrese, M.P.H.
Public Health Analyst, Maternal and Pediatric Infectious Disease Branch
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- Hongen Yin, M.D., Ph.D., MHSc.
Program Director, HIV/AIDS and Oral Health
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Richard A. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator
Prevention Research Branch - Vasundhara Varthakavi, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Associate Director
AIDS Research Program
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- Peter J. Perrin, Ph.D.
Program Director
HIV/AIDS Coordinator - Khoa Nguyen, PharmD (contractor)
Scientific Program Analyst
HIV Research Program
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Christopher M. Gordon, Ph.D.
Branch Chief, Division of AIDS Research - Suzanne Pollard, Ph.D.
Program Officer, Division of AIDS Research
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
- Carolina Solis Sanabria, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.
Program Official, Division of Clinical and Health Services Research
National Institute on Nursing Research (NINR)
- Kristopher Bough, Ph.D.
Program Director, Small Business & Technology Program
Fogarty International Center (FIC)
- Geetha Bansal, Ph.D.
Program Officer, HIVRT and HIVTB
Division of International Training and Research
- Elisabet (Lis) Caler, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Advisor
Office of AIDS Research