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Sydella Blatch Alexander, Ph.D., is a program director in the Division of Training and Workforce Development. She also manages a portfolio of grants on organismal responses to environmental stressors in the Division of Genetics, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.
Prior to joining NIGMS, Blatch Alexander worked as a program manager in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Office of Research Training and Development, as director of professional development for the American Society for Cell Biology, and as an associate professor of biology at Stevenson University.
Blatch Alexander earned a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in biology from Arizona State University. She conducted postdoctoral studies at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.