Dr. Jonathan David Geiger is an established investigator who is the PI for Indigenous Trauma & Resilience Research Center Association, as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba (’82-’84), I accepted a faculty position in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Manitoba where I remained for 19 years (‘84-‘03) rising to the rank of Professor and Founding Director (‘99-‘03) of the Division of Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Diseases at the St. Boniface General Hospital Research Center. From July 2003 to July 2013 I served as Chair of the UND Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Therapeutics. In addition, from July 2010 to July 2013 I served as Interim Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. From April of 2015 to September of 2015 I served as Vice-Chair of the Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences; a department that resulted from the consolidation of 4 departments in the Medical School at UND. Since 2003 I have been the Principal Investigator of a Neuroscience Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant ($25M over 15 years) and I am the Senior Management Advisor for a second COBRE grant focused on epigenetics ($10M over 5 years). For these two COBRE grants, three highly functional cores have been established; imaging and image analysis, mass spectrometry, and genomics/epigenetics/bioinformatics. I have consistently held multiple federal operating grants simultaneously throughout my career, and received highly prestigious Scholarship and Scientist awards (separate grants that pay an investigator’s salary independent of research operating grants) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). I am currently funded by two five-year R01 grants from the NIH and hold the position of Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor.

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