Thursday, May 3, 2012
10:45 am Maryland Hall
Dharam Dhindsa, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Former Deputy Chief Surgical Sciences, Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering
NIH/CSR Center for Scientific Review
Title: “Peer Review Process and funding of Grant Applications by the NIH”
Dr. Dharam S. Dhindsa received his D.V.M. degree in 1956; he received his M.S. in physiology in 1963 from Montana State University and his Ph.D. in physiology in 1967 from the University of Illinois. He worked at the University of Oregon Medical School in the Department of Medicine and as Chairman of Animal Science at the Oregon Zoology Research Center. He received several NIH grants as a principal investigator (PI) and Co-PI while at the Medical School in Portland. His area of research included estrous and ovulation control, embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization, pregnancy maintenance, exercise during pregnancy, hemodynamics, and oxygen transport by the blood. In 1975 Dr. Dhindsa joined NIH as Executive Secretary of the Reproductive Biology Study Section in the Division of Research Grants, which is now CSR. Dr. Dhindsa also served as a referral officer for 20 years, and in 2004 he became Deputy Chief of the Surgical Sciences, Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering IRG. He became a scientific review officer of the Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences Study Section in 2003. He has published over 60 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has organized six workshops and edited their proceedings. He has received several awards and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He has attended many national and international scientific meetings. He has delivered many invited lectures both for scientific work and for peer review systems and mechanisms of funding for NIH. |
