Revisions to the Fellowship Application and Review Process

Ericka Boone, Ph.D. is the Director for the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce (DBRW) within the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER). She recently served as the Director of the NIH Division of Loan Repayment. In that role, Dr. Boone was responsible for administering and providing leadership for the NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRP) as well as representing NIH on matters related to the operations, policy development and evaluation of the LRP. Previous to this position, Dr. Boone served as a Health Scientist Administrator in the Office of Science Policy and Communications at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. There she developed and targeted science-based publications, outreach initiatives and other activities to educate a variety of audiences about the science of drug use, abuse and addiction. For her role in these efforts, Dr. Boone has won several NIDA Director’s Awards of Merit and an NIH Director’s Award. Prior to coming to NIH, Dr. Boone conducted research at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Emory University. Dr. Boone’s academic background includes a B.A. in Biology from Talladega College and a Ph.D. in Biobehavioral Health from The Pennsylvania State University.

Alison Gammie, Ph.D., is director of the Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity, which supports the National Institute of General Medical Sciences' (NIGMS) research training, career development and diversity-building activities. Prior to coming to NIGMS, she was a Senior Lecturer at Princeton University, where, in addition to teaching, mentoring and running a research laboratory, she served as an academic advisor, an Associate Member at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and the Director of Diversity Programs & Graduate Recruiting. Honors include Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Graduate Mentoring Award and the American Society for Microbiology Hinton Award for advancing the research careers of under-represented minorities.

Dr. Bruce Reed is CSR’s Deputy Director. In close collaboration with the Director, he works to optimize peer review at the NIH. At CSR he has led multiple initiatives to develop new review practices and policies and plays a major role with respect to agency planning, communications, training resources, and CSR’s data analytic efforts. Dr. Reed came to NIH from the University of California, Davis, where he was a professor of Neurology and Associate Director of its NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center. He came to NIH in 2015 as the Director of CSR’s Division of Neuroscience, Development, and Aging.

Dr. Reed earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At UC Davis he conducted longitudinal studies of aging in demographically diverse populations aimed at better understanding the factors that accelerate or protect against cognitive decline in old age. He also practiced for over 20 years as a neuropsychologist, providing patient care and teaching at the Northern California Veteran’s Administration Health Care System.