Senior Advisor to the Director
NIH/NCATS
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Dr. Sittampalam is a Senior Advisor and Project Manager at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS/NIH). He has graduate training in bioanalytical chemistry and has ~ 40 peer-reviewed publications and presented over 250 invited seminars short courses and lectures pharmacology, drug discovery Assay Development and HTS. He spent ~23 years in discovery and development of biologicals and small molecule drugs at Eli Lilly & Co, Indianapolis, IN., followed by 4 years as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Advancing Medical Innovations (IAMI) focused on advancing basic research to therapies for commercialization. During the same period, as a professor of Pharmacology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, he investigated cancer stem cells, circulating tumor cells and 3-dimensional cell models for drug discovery. He has served in NIH and multiple scientific grant review panels, currently Editor-in-Chief of the Assay Guidance Manual (NCBI eBook), in the editorial board of the Journal of Biomolecular Sciences, President and Board member of Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) and the scientific advisory boards of Science Translational Medicine and Science Exchange Inc., Organovo Holdings LLC, and Stemina Biomarker Inc.
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