National Institute of
Shakira M. Nelson, Ph.D., is a program director in the Division of Training and Workforce Development. She also manages research grants in the area of inflammation and innate immunity in the Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry.
Before joining NIGMS, Nelson was a senior scientific program administrator at the American Association for Cancer Research.
Nelson earned a B.S. in microbiology from Pennsylvania State University, an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Ph.D. in immunology and infectious diseases from Pennsylvania State University. She conducted postdoctoral research as a cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute.