Research We Fund: Extramural Discovery Science (EDS)

 Experimental Therapeutics (ET)

Areas Reviewed

  • Isolation, testing, and synthesis of natural products

  • Modification and development of drugs

  • Toxicity and effectiveness of therapeutic agents and drug delivery systems (including nanotechnology and microbial strategies)

  • Molecular imaging for pre-clinical therapeutic development

  • Pharmacology/pharmacogenetics/pharmacogenomics

  • Gene therapies and gene target validation

Peer Review Committee Members

Co-chair, Weibo Cai, PhD, University of Wisconsin Madison

Co-chair, Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, University of Michigan

Community Research Partner, Carol Baas

Community Research Partner, Elizabeth Naylor

Community Research Partner, Nick Wendell

Keri Backus, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Chandra Bartholomeusz, MD, PhD, MD Anderson

Dan Crona, PhD, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

Edith Phoebe Glazer, PhD, North Carolina State University

Hanna Irie, MD, PhD, Mount Sinai

Ashish Kulkarni, PhD, University of Massachusetts

Stavroula Sofou, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Stephen Sykes, PhD, Washington University St. Louis

Uttam Tambar, PhD, UT Southwestern

David Wald, MD, PhD, Case Western University

Ji Young Yoo; PhD, University of Texas- Houston McGovern Medical School

Yuwen Zhu, PhD, University of Colorado