Jodi Black

Jodi Beth Black is an American microbiologist and research administrator who worked at the Food and Drug Administration in 2021. She previously served as deputy director of the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, director and vice president of research administration at the Translational Genomics Research Institute and acting director of the division of extramural activities at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Education Jodi Black earned a Bachelor of Arts in biology at Rollins College. She completed a Ph.D. in experimental pathology and Masters of Medical Science in infectious diseases at Emory University. Her dissertation was titled Human herpesvirus 6 strain Z29: Growth characteristics, virion specific protein identification and the effect of infection on the host. Her doctoral advisor was Philip E. Pellett.

Career and research Black was a research microbiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she served as the head for the CDC Cellular Virology Lab in the Herpes Virus section. She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a program officer and director of the Office of the AIDS Malignancy Program at the National Cancer Institute.

In her career, Black has developed, implemented, and managed large, diverse, multidisciplinary scientific programs in areas including infectious diseases, cancer and genomics and has developed strategic alliances between academic, healthcare and commercial organizations to leverage resources and capacity across institutions to enhance the translation of innovative technologies from the bench to the market to enhance health.

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