NIAID New Innovators Awards Program Staff

Contact Information

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Program Staff

Timothy A. Gondré-Lewis, Ph.D.

Program Officer, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation

Contact: tglewis@niaid.nih.gov

Education:

A.B., Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Ph.D., Medical College of Virginia – Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Dr. Gondré-Lewis received his A.B. from Oberlin College and Ph.D. from the Medical College of Virginia – Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed his training as a post-doctoral fellow at the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, N.Y. After his post-doctoral fellowship Dr. Gondré-Lewis joined the faculty at York College of The City University of New York teaching and maintaining an active...

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Diane Lawrence, Ph.D.

Program Officer, Division of AIDS

Contact: diane.lawrence2@nih.gov

Education:

B.A., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Ph.D., University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Diane Lawrence, Ph.D., is a Program Officer in the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. She oversees a portfolio of grants and has developed funding opportunities related to basic HIV persistence and immunology research, including the Martin Delaney Collaboratories for HIV Cure Research, as well as technology...

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Susana Mendez, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Program Officer, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Contact: susana.mendez@nih.gov

Education:

D.V.M., Ph.D., University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Susana Mendez, D.V.M., Ph.D. is a Program Officer in the Tuberculosis and other Mycobacteria Diseases section of the Respiratory Diseases Branch (RDB) at the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID). She received a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine degree (D.V.M.) and a Ph.D. degree in veterinary science at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. Dr. Mendez joined the NIH in 1999...

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