Personnel summary
Program Director
Office of the Director (OD)
Office of Integrative Activities (OIA)
Research Capacity & Competitiveness
Contact information
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Email cwhitley@nsf.gov
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Room W 17118
Program responsibilities
- EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement : EPSCoR Research Fellows
- EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: EPSCoR Collaborations for Optimizing Research Ecosystems (E-CORE)
- EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: EPSCoR Research Incubators for STEM Excellence (E-RISE)
Biography
Biography:
Chinonye "Chi-Chi" Nnakwe Whitley, Ph. D. is a molecular biologist and her studies of DNA repair and DNA damage signaling pathways offer insights into the molecular biology of neuroscience, immunology, and cancer biology. Dr. Whitley obtained her B.Sc. in Biochemistry with Departmental Distinction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Ph. D. in Pathology from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Whitley joined the NSF’s Office of Integrative Activities in September 2017 and serves as a Program Officer for the NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).