Research Leadership

Dimitrios Karamichos, PhD, FARVO
Vice President, Research and Graduate Studies
Executive Director & Endowed Chair, NTERI
Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacology & Neuroscience

Mazen Barakat, MBA
Senior Associate Vice President
Research Finance & Administration

Noah Drew
Associate Vice President
Research Operations

Karissa O’Brien, MBA
Assistant Vice President
Office of Sponsored Programs

Tania Ghani, MS, CIP
Associate Vice President
Office of Research Compliance

Research Directors

Egeenee Daniels, DVM
Executive Director
Department of Lab Animal Medicine

Sam Dean
Director of Communications
Division of Research and Innovation

Itzel Pena Perez, MS, CIP
Director
North Texas Regional IRB

Crystal Perez, D. Bioethics, MS, CHW
Director
Research Security & International Compliance

Amanda Hatcher, MBA
Director of Grant Accounting & Fiscal Compliance
Sponsored Program Accounting

Gregory Harris
Associate Director
Research Information Systems & Analytics