INBRE - Key Persons

Anjana Bhat

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Associate Professor in Physical Therapy, Faculty in Biomechanics and Movement Science PhD Program, Faculty in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience PhD Program / University of Delaware

Christiana Care

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Claudine Jurkovitz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Director, Christiana Care Center for Outcomes Research

Dawn Everhart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Assistant Director / University of Delaware
  • Delaware INBRE Assistant Director / University of Delaware

Eric Wommack

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Senior Associate Vice President for Research / University of Delaware

Hacene Boukari

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Department of Physics
  • Director of OSCAR Imaging Facility / Professor, Division of Physical and Computational Sciences
  • Director, OSCAR Imaging Facility / Professor, Department of Physics and Engineering / Delaware State University

Heather Hardy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Director, Histochemistry and Tissue Processing Core / Nemours / Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children

Jeff Caplan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Director, Bioimaging Center / University of Delaware

John McDowell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Department of Biology & Chemistry / Delaware Technical Community College
  • Professor
  • Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry / Delaware Technical Community College

Kelvin Lee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Director of the Manufacturing USA National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals ( NIIMBL ) University of Delaware

Laura Lessard

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Delaware INBRE Program Coordinator / Director of Evaluation Delaware INBRE
  • Director of Evaluation INBRE, Interim INBRE - PC / University of Delaware

Linda Polasko

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Delaware INBRE Project Coordinator
  • Project Coordinator, INBRE / University of Delaware

Lisa Jaremka

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Department of Psychological

Lydia Schlitzkus

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Committee Admin Support
  • Coordinator - Events, Project Management, Communications / University of Delaware

Melinda K. Duncan

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Associate Vice President for Research
  • Associate Vice President for Research, INBRE PI / Director, Education and Professional Development
  • Delaware INBRE Principal Investigator / Associate Vice President for Research

Melissa Harrington

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Associate Vice President for Research Director, Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research, Director, Delaware Institute for Science of Technology / Delaware State University

Omar Khan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • President and CEO, Delaware Health Science Alliance, Physician Leader for Research and Scientific Affairs

Rob Akins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Director, Center for Pediatric Clinical Research and Development
  • Director, Office of Educational Programs and Research

Robert E. Measley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Chief of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Designated Education Official / Wilmington VA Medical Center

Scott Siegel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Director of Population Health / Office of Transformation
  • Director of Population Health, Value Institute Office of Transformation
  • Director, Population Health

Shawn Polson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Director, Bioinformatics Core / University of Delaware

Sonali Barwe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Director, Center for Pediatric Clinical Research and Development

Suzanne Milbourne

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Research Advancement Associate / Wilmington VA Medical Center

Tariq Rahman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Director, Center for Orthopedic Research & Development / Nemours / Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children

Vicky Funanage

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Executive Director, Research / the Nemours Foundation