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Elisa Eiseman

Senior Natural Scientist Off-site Office Fields Human genetics, biochemistry

Education Ph.D. Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1989 Policy Areas Bioethics, biomedicine, biotechnology

Recent Projects

• Assessed current state of global health resource tracking, and identified characteristics of a truly global health resource tracking system to meets needs of potential users and address limitations of current systems for the Global Health Policy Research Network, a program of the Center for Global Development, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Developed criteria for determining the quality of exercises used by public health officials to train staff and measure and sustain preparedness for public health emergencies, including bioterrorism, for the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Identified best practices necessary for establishing a national tissue resource and data bank to optimize and accelerate genomics- and proteomics-based research by evaluating practices at existing human tissue repositories for C-Change (formerly National Dialogue on Cancer) and the National Cancer Institute.
• Analyses of the federal research and development portfolio for the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Science Consultant for the National Bioethics Advisory Commission

Previous/Other Positions

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Technology Policy Science and Engineering Fellow at the RAND Science and Technology Policy Institute from 1996 to 1998.
• Senior Scientist at Cell Therapeutics, Inc., a Seattle-based biotechnology company.
• Postdoctoral fellow at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey.
• Postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute.

Selected Publications

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