Personnel at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick) work in a collaborative manner within and between teams and with external partners and affiliates.
IRF-Frederick Leadership
Connie Schmaljohn, Ph.D.
Director, Integrated Research Facility
Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR)
Dr. Connie Schmaljohn was selected and became director of the NIAID IRF-Frederick in November 2019. Prior to that time, she was the senior research scientist for medical defenses against infectious disease threats for the U.S. Army and directed a research program at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). Dr. Schmaljohn earned a B.S. degree in microbiology from...
Ian Crozier, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Medical Affairs Scientist
(Contractor)
As chief medical officer, Dr. Crozier provides support to bridge the human clinical bedside and animal models of emerging high-threat infectious diseases. He is an infectious diseases clinician-scientist who brings extensive experience at the Ebola virus disease outbreak bedside, including in ongoing clinical research efforts in Western Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dr. Crozier...
Sarah L. Donahue, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director for Management and Operations
Dr. Donahue has been in her current role at the IRF-Frederick since 2021. Her career has spanned over 15 years, with extensive experience as a senior civilian leader with the U.S. Army, most recently having served as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick, overseeing the operational management of the Army’s medical research and development...
Travis K. Warren, Ph.D.
Operations Director
(Contractor)
With over 20 years of experience conducting and leading infectious disease research, Dr. Warren’s data from nonclinical studies have contributed to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals of tecoviromat for treatment of smallpox and remdesivir for treatment of SARS-CoV-2. He specializes in animal rule regulatory model characterizations and therapeutic development for highly infectious...
Scientific and Technical Services
Mike Holbrook, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
Director of Biocontainment
(Contractor)
Dr. Holbrook has been working in biocontainment research for more than 20 years with recognized expertise in biocontainment facilities, resources, and research management. Dr. Holbrook has a broad research portfolio with practical research experience working with arenaviruses, bunyaviruses, filoviruses, flaviviruses, and henipaviruses. His research interests include viral pathogenesis, viral...
Jens H. Kuhn, M.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., M.S.
Principal Scientist
Director of Virology
(Contractor)
Dr. Kuhn specializes in the molecular biology and pathogenesis of and medical countermeasure development against Risk Group 4 pathogens (in particular, arenaviruses and filoviruses), evolutionary virology and virus taxonomy, and bioweapons defense. Dr. Kuhn has published more than 270 journal articles and almost 80 book chapters, and three books; served or serves on the editorial boards of 10...
Marisa St. Claire, D.V.M., M.S., Diplomate ACLAM
Chief Veterinarian
Dr. St. Claire oversees the Comparative Medicine Program, including all aspects of animal care and use. She is board-certified by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) and has over 20 years of experience conducting infectious disease research using animal models for NIAID.
Learn more about Marisa St. Claire, D.V.M., M.S., Diplomate ACLAM
Michele Di Mascio, Ph.D.
Chief, AIDS Imaging Research
Dr. Di Mascio is the Chief of the AIDS Imaging Research Section of the Integrated Research Facility and the Chief of the Mathematical Biology Section of the Biostatistics Research Branch at the Division of Clinical Research of NIAID. After his postdoctoral research work at the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory of Los Alamos, New Mexico, he moved to NIH (in 2003), where he...
Resources for Researchers
The IRF-Frederick has the following capabilities and collaborative research support opportunities available to internal (NIAID) and extramural researchers. Contact information is included, so researchers can reach out to someone to guide them through the process.
- Aerobiology
- AIDS Imaging Research
- Animal Models of Disease
- Artificial Intelligence
- Clinical Studies Support
- Core Services
- Drug Screening
- Electron Microscopy (EM)
- Imaging Sciences
- Immunology
- Pathology and Histology
- Virology
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