Co-Chairs are Institute or Center (IC) directors or IC senior staff who lead the Working Group and have the authority to approve major activities and funding actions.
 

• Gregory Germino, M.D.
  Deputy Director
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
   
• Joni L. Rutter, Ph.D.
  Acting Director
  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
   
• Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D.
  Director
  National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
   
• Amir Tamiz, Ph.D.
  Director
  Division of Translational Research
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   

Members:

The Working Group Members are staff from multiple NIH Institutes and Centers who provide input from their Institute or Center’s perspective.

• Olivier Berton, Ph.D.
  Acting Branch Chief
  Integrative Neuroscience Branch
  National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
   
• Julia Berzhanskaya, Ph.D.
  Health Science Administrator
  Division of Construction and Instruments (DCI)
  Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP)
  Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI)
  Office of the Director
   
• Moria Fisher Bittmann, Ph.D.
  Health Program Specialist
  Channels, Synapses and Circuits Cluster
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• Joe Bonner, Ph.D.
  Program Officer
  National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
   
• Wen G. Chen, Ph.D.
  Branch Chief and Program Director
  Basic and Mechanistic Research in Complementary and Integrative Health Branch
  National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
   
• Brad Cooke, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
   
• James N. Coulombe, Ph.D.
  Program Officer
  Developmental Biology and Structural Variation Branch
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
   
• Theresa Cruz, Ph.D.
  Program Officer
  Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
   
• Jessica Falcone, Ph.D.
  Assistant Program Officer
  Division of Discovery Science & Technology (DDST)
  National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
   
• Marie Gill, M.S.
  Health Program Specialist
  Division of Neuroscience
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• Daniel R. Gossett, Ph.D.
  Health Specialist
  Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
   
• Brooks A. Gross, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Translational Research
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• Jill Heemskerk, Ph.D.
  Deputy Director
  National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
   
• Emrin Horgusluoglu, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Basic and Mechanistic Research in Complementary and Integrative Health Branch
  National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
   
• Eric M. Hudak, Ph.D.
  Scientific Project Manager
  Division of Translational Research
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• Diane Joss, Ph.D.
  Scientific Program Analyst
  Basic and Mechanistic Research Branch
  National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
   
• Nick Langhals, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Translational Neural Devices Cluster
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• Albert Lee, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
   
• Matthew McAuliffe, Ph.D.
  Chief
  Biomedical Imaging Research Services Section (BIRSS)
  Division of Computational Bioscience
  Center for Information Technology (CIT)
   
• Roger L. Miller, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Neural Prosthesis Development
  National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
   
• D.P. Mohapatra, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Neuroscience
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• Michael Oshinsky, Ph.D.
  Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• Grace Peng, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Mathematical Modeling, Simulation & Analysis
  Division of Discovery Science & Technology (Bioengineering)
  National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
   
• Andrew F. Rossi, Ph.D.
  Program Chief
  Executive Functions Program
  Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science
  National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
   
• Terez Shea-Donohue, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
   
• Sidd Shenoy, Ph.D.
  SPARC - Translational Partnerships (Component 3)
  Scientific Program Analyst
  Translational Neural Devices
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• David Shurtleff, Ph.D.
  Deputy Director
  National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
   
• Victoria Spruance, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
   
• Edmund (Ned) Talley, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Channels Synapses and Circuits Cluster
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• Karen L. Teff, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolic Diseases
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
   
• Olga A. Tjurmina, Ph.D.
  Program Officer
  Heart Failure and Arrhythmias Branch
  National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
   
• Nasim W. Vahidi, Ph.D.
  Scientific Program Analyst
  Division of Translational Research
  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
   
• Rita Valentino, Ph.D.
  Director
  Division of Neuroscience and Behavior
  National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
   
• Ashley Xia, M.D., Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
   
• Yantian Zhang, Ph.D.
  Program Director
  Imaging Technology Development Branch
  Cancer Imaging Program
  National Cancer Institute (NCI)