Full Name
Sydella Blatch
Job Title
Program Director in NIGMS’ Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (TWD)
Company
NIH
Speaker Bio
Sydella Blatch, Ph.D., is a program director in NIGMS’ Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (TWD) and Division of Genetics, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (GMCDB).
As part of the NIH Diversity Program Consortium, she is the lead program officer for the Sponsored Programs Administration Development (SPAD) program, a cooperative agreement. She also manages the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (G-RISE) and Transdisciplinary Basic Biomedical Sciences predoctoral T32 institutional training grants. Sydella co-manages the Research on Interventions R01/R35 grant portfolio and RPGs on organismal responses to environmental stressors.
Prior to joining NIGMS, Sydella worked as a program manager in NIAID’s intramural Office of Research Training and Development and as director of professional development for the American Society for Cell Biology. Each of these roles included providing research development to early career stage investigators seeking grant funding. Prior to that, she was an associate professor of biology at a small primarily undergraduate university, focusing on teaching, mentoring undergraduates in research, and service in faculty development and research culture.
Sydella earned a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in biology from Arizona State University, studying insect nutritional physiology. She conducted postdoctoral studies at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development on imprinted genes in mice and holds a graduate certificate in Education Policy and Program Evaluation from Georgetown University.
As part of the NIH Diversity Program Consortium, she is the lead program officer for the Sponsored Programs Administration Development (SPAD) program, a cooperative agreement. She also manages the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (G-RISE) and Transdisciplinary Basic Biomedical Sciences predoctoral T32 institutional training grants. Sydella co-manages the Research on Interventions R01/R35 grant portfolio and RPGs on organismal responses to environmental stressors.
Prior to joining NIGMS, Sydella worked as a program manager in NIAID’s intramural Office of Research Training and Development and as director of professional development for the American Society for Cell Biology. Each of these roles included providing research development to early career stage investigators seeking grant funding. Prior to that, she was an associate professor of biology at a small primarily undergraduate university, focusing on teaching, mentoring undergraduates in research, and service in faculty development and research culture.
Sydella earned a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in biology from Arizona State University, studying insect nutritional physiology. She conducted postdoctoral studies at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development on imprinted genes in mice and holds a graduate certificate in Education Policy and Program Evaluation from Georgetown University.
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