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Carolina Salvador Morales, Ph.D., is chief of the Biomedical Technology Branch in the Division of Biophysics, Biomedical Technology, and Computational Biosciences. She oversees biomedical technology-focused grant portfolios and co-leads the biomedical technology and dissemination funding program.
Prior to joining NIGMS, Morales was a program director at the National Cancer Institute, where she managed nanotechnology and imaging-centric grants. She also co-developed several funding initiatives on wearable devices for cancer research and care.
Before NIH, Morales was a tenured associate professor. Her research program included cancer nanotechnology, molecular imaging, and agricultural chemistry projects.
Before that, she was a Kauffman Fellow and taught courses on entrepreneurship in bioengineering. Her passion for medical translation led her to perform an extensive customer discovery process within the National Science Foundation I-Corp program and to co-found Nano-Guided Technologies, LLC.
Morales received a bachelor's degree in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a master's degree in biochemistry from Trinity College in Dublin. Her Ph.D. in chemistry is from Oxford University and she conducted her postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital.