Antonio Scarpa will take reins at the Center for Scientific Review

Antonio Scarpa will take reins at the Center for Scientific Review

On March 21 the National Institutes of Health issued a press release announcing the appointment of Antonio Scarpa, MD, PhD, as the new director of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR). Dr. Scarpa is currently the David and Inez Myers professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He will join NIH on July 1, 2005, replacing Brent Stanfield, PhD, who has been acting director of CSR since October 2003.

Dr. Scarpa served as a permanent member of three NIH peer review committees between 1983 and 2003. He has also served on peer review committees for the American Heart Association. His investigations have focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of ion transport, homeostasis, and metabolic changes. He is author of more than 225 peer-reviewed publications, and has edited or co-edited 9 books or special journal supplements. He has also served on the editorial boards of 13 scientific journals and served as editor or co-editor for 5 journals.

The Center for Scientific Review organizes the peer review groups that evaluate the majority of grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health. CSR also receives all NIH and many Public Health Service grant applications and assigns them to the appropriate NIH Institutes and Centers and PHS agencies.

Source: NIH Press Release, Monday, March 21, 2005