CFDE Team
This is the team that oversees the development, implementation, communication, and assessment of the Common Fund program.
Leadership Team & Points of Contact:
The Program Leader and Project Team Leaders serve as the day to day leadership for the program. Also included here are points of contact for areas of program management.
Common Fund Program Leader:
- Betsy Wilder, Ph.D.
Program Leader
Director
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Project Team Leaders:
- Chris Kinsinger, Ph.D.
CFDE Program Leader
Program Manager
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- George Papanicolaou, Ph.D.
CFDE Program Leader
Program Manager
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Haluk Resat, Ph.D.
CFDE Program Leader
Program Manager
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Points of Contact:
- David Dzamashvili
Business Operations and Analysis Contact
Program Analyst
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Kristin (Christy) Kano, Ph.D.
CFDE Coordinator and Project Manager
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Wendy Knosp, Ph.D.
Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Communications Contact
Health Science Policy Analyst
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Todd Reilly, Ph.D.
STRIDES Engagement
Onboarding Lead
Center for Information Technology (CIT)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Nick Weber
STRIDES Engagement
Program Manager
Center for Information Technology (CIT)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Members:
The Working Group Members are staff from multiple NIH Institutes and Centers who provide input from their Institute or Center’s perspective and from their role as technical leads for CFDE or Common Fund programs engaged with CFDE.- Valerie Cotton, B.Sc.
Technical lead: Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Program
Kids First Program Manager
Developmental Biology and Structural Variation Branch
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Tanja Davidsen, Ph.D.
Technical lead: CFDE Coordinating Center
Biomedical Informatics Specialist
Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Jyoti Dayal, M.S.
Technical lead: GTEx
Program Director
Division of Genomic Medicine
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
- Sean Hanlon, Ph.D.
Technical Lead: 4DN
Acting Deputy Director
Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Christine Happel, Ph.D.
Technical lead: ExRNA
Scientific Program Analyst
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
- T. Kevin Howcroft, Ph.D.
Technical lead: SenNet
Program Director
Division of Cancer Biology
Cancer Immunology and Hematology Branch
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Chamelli Jhappan, Ph.D.
Technical lead: SenNet
Program Director
Division of Cancer Biology
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Ajay Pillai, Ph.D.
Technical lead: HuBMAP, LINCS, and IDG
Program Director
Division of Genome Sciences
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
- Rebecca Rosen, Ph.D.
Technical lead: CFDE Coordinating Center
Director
Office of Data Science and Sharing
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Shurjo K. Sen, Ph.D.
Technical lead: Bridge2AI
Program Director
Division of Genome Sciences
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
- Douglas M. Sheeley, Sc.D.
Technical lead: Glycosciences
Program Leader
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Pothur R. Srinivas, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Technical lead: Metabolomics
Deputy Associate Director
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Ashley Xia, M.D., Ph.D.
Technical lead: SPARC
Program Director
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
This page last reviewed on September 23, 2021