Dr. Ming Lei is the Director of the Division for Research Capacity Building at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). He oversees the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) and other research capacity-building programs with a total annual funding budget of approximately $500 million. He held leadership positions at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) before joining NIGMS in 2018. Prior to entering public service, Ming Lei was an R01-funded principal investigator and Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, studying the regulation of DNA replication.  He earned an Ph.D. from Cornell University at Ithaca, New York.

Presentation Topics

• General overview of the IDeA program
• IDeA Program-sponsored COVID-19-related research activities
• Upcoming COVID-19-related funding opportunities open to IDeA program PIs
• Google/Amazon-sponsored cloud computing training and research programs for IDeA program

For registration,  follow this link: https://naipi.org/2021/05/11/nigms-idea-wide-town-hall-meeting/