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OBBR Staff
The Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research has a dedicated team which is working diligently to execute the core focus areas of the office. The staff is comprised of Federal Employees, Contractors, and Fellows who are committed to fulfill the mission of the office: to facilitate cancer and biomedical research by improving the quality and consistency of human biospecimens through the development and deployment of standards that represent the state of the science for biospecimen collections.
The OBBR team is comprised of the following staff members. For bios, please click on the individual.
| Name |
Title |
| Jim Vaught, Ph.D. |
Deputy Director |
| Joanne Peter Demchok, M.S. (ASCP) |
Health Scientist Administrator |
| Tony Dickherber, Ph.D. |
Program Director – Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) Program |
| Nicole Lockhart, Ph.D. |
Health Scientist Administrator |
| Helen M. Moore, Ph.D. |
Program Manager |
| Chana Rabiner, Ph.D. |
Health Scientist Administrator |
| Deborah Robinson, AAS |
Program Assistant |
| Sherilyn J. Sawyer, Ph.D. |
Health Scientist Administrator |
| Carol Weil, J.D. |
Senior Advisor for Ethical and Regulatory Affairs |
| David Litwack, Ph.D. |
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow |
| Mary C. Thomas, Ph.D. |
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow |
B. Paige Bass, Ph.D.
(Contractor) |
Curator for the Biospecimen Research Database |
Philip A. Branton, M.D., FCAP
(Contractor) |
Surgical Pathologist |
Latarsha Carithers, Ph.D.
(Contractor) |
Project Manager |
Sharon D. Collins, MPA
(Contractor) |
Operations Coordinator |
Kelly Bonner Engel, Ph.D.
(Contractor) |
Lead Curator for the Biospecimen Research Database |
Benjamin Fombonne
(Contractor) |
Scientific Program Analyst |
Sarah Greytak, Ph.D.
(Contractor) |
Curator for the Biospecimen Research Database |
Joyce Rogers, MBA, PMP
(Contractor) |
Program Manager |
Tracy Starr
(Contractor) |
Operations Coordinator |
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