HEALTH SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION
Program Officer for mental health and neurotechnology grants under the BRAIN initiative.
- Program Director for a diverse portfolio of investigator-initiated research grants, as well as national biomedical technology centers.
- Manage a program to foster innovative research in design of scientific and medical instrumentation and devices, covering areas such as optics, microscopy, clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, biomarkers, high throughput screening, proteomics, MEMS, drug discovery, computational and structural biology, bioinformatics, pharmacogenetics, personalized medicine, translational medicine.
- Program Director for small business grants for research and development of scientific and medical instrumentation, devices and diagnostics.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
- Numerous studies that clarified molecular basis of cytochrome P450-dependent drug and carcinogen metabolism, and cancer signaling proteins
- Developed computational molecular models of macromolecules to explain their mechanism of action
- Developed laser flash photolysis instrumentation and analytics to study rapid biochemical reactions
- Uncovered details on the structure and function of many proteins including cytochrome P450, hemoglobin, myoglobin, cancer oncogenes and other cancer-related proteins