Stephanie Constant

Stephanie L. Constant is an American immunologist and science administrator. She was an associate professor at George Washington University and a scientific review officer at National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute before becoming chief of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Office of Scientific Review in 2017.

Education Constant earned a B.S. in biology and a Ph.D. in immunology and parasitology, both from the University of York. She conducted postdoctoral research in the field of CD4 T cell differentiation at Yale School of Medicine, in the laboratory of H. Kim Bottomly.

Career Constant was a tenured associate professor in the department of microbiology, immunology and tropical medicine at George Washington University where her laboratory studied the regulation of immune responses in chronic inflammatory diseases. Constant chaired or co-chaired a number of NHLBI working groups, including its Diversity Training Programs subcommittee, and served on several NIH-wide training and peer review committees. She participated in outreach programs to promote diversity in the biomedical workforce. She directs OSR as it plans, conducts and coordinates the scientific and technical merit review of research grants, cooperative agreements and training grant applications, including those designed to increase diversity in the research workforce, and assures that these reviews are of a uniformly high quality.