Biographical Sketch: Sailaja Koduri, Ph.D.

Sailaja Koduri, Ph.D., is a program director in the Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry, where she administers a portfolio of research grants in the areas of drug metabolism, transport, and kinetics; packaging and delivery of molecules and biologics; and small business (SBIR) and tech transfer (STTR). She also manages predoctoral training grants in Pharmacological Sciences and serves as a program contact for the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for early stage investigators.

Koduri was formerly a scientific review officer at National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and prior to that she worked as a senior scientist at BioReliance. She earned a B.S. in chemistry from Nagarjuna University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Central Food Technological Research Institute, both in India. Koduri conducted postdoctoral research at the Howard University College of Medicine and National Cancer Institute.

To contact Koduri, send email to sailaja.koduri@nih.gov.

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