NIBIB Senior Science Officer
Dr. Christine A. Kelley is the Director for the Division of Discovery Science and Technology in the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health. She received her Ph.D. degree in Cell Biology from Boston University in 1988. Her graduate research focused on the role of pericytes in the microvasculature. From 1988-1996 Dr. Kelley conducted postdoctoral and then independent research on the function and regulation of smooth muscle and nonmuscle myosin isoforms in the Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). In 1996 Dr. Kelley became a Program Director for Vascular Biology within the Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases in the NHLBI, before moving in 1998 to a position as Program Director for Bioengineering within the same Division. Dr. Kelley joined the NIBIB in March, 2002 as a Program Director for Bioengineering and assumed her current position as Division Director in May, 2003.
