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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 235-246

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... from Texas A&M University and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship and training program in comparative medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He began his career as a research scientist at Tulane National Primate Research Center (1974–1979)
From page 236...
... Brewer Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to animals and science, and received an Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2007 from the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. He was awarded an emeritus professorship by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2020.
From page 237...
... Baran was appointed to a National Institutes of Health advisory committee to the director working group on novel alternative methods. Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychology and a core scientist at the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
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... He also served as PI of a recently concluded Department of Defense/Congressionally Directed Medical Research Focused Program designed to assess cardiac, metabolic, immune, and genomic injury in irradiated nonhuman primates. He is program director for an NIH T32 Postdoctoral Training Program in Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine, focused on training graduate veterinarians to become independent researchers.
From page 239...
... , and a member of the Society of Toxicologic Pathology. She is currently serving on the Board of Scientific Councilors of the National Toxicology Program, and she is a reviewer for the Assay Development and Screening Technologies Laboratory of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
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... She was trained in surgical modeling and as an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota. She completed doctoral training at Utrecht University as a primatologist focused on animal welfare science, with a thesis titled "Working on the 3Rs: Utilization of refinement to enhance the value of translational research in nonhuman primates." Dr.
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... Dr. Piantadosi has advised numerous public and commercial entities regarding clinical trials and taught extensively in domestic and international venues for more than 30 years.
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... Dr. Piantadosi serves as consultant to the MITRE Corporation for work related to electronic health record data and is also a consultant for a medical device startup, CrainiUS, focused on the intracranial delivery of drugs for gliomas.
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... , is a senior program officer with the Board on Health Sciences Policy. She joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2012 and is currently directing a consensus study on nonhuman primate models in biomedical research, as well as a standing committee on personal protective equipment.
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... This is a standing committee at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sponsored by the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health that provides a forum for discussion of scientific and technical issues relevant to the development, certification, deployment, and use of personal protective equipment, standards, and related systems to ensure workplace safety and health. Previously, at the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ms.
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... Aparna Cheran is a senior program assistant with the Board on Health Sciences, where she is a staff member on the Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health and the Forum on Regenerative Medicine. She graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a B.S.


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