Gregory Milman, Ph.D
Director of the Office of Innovations and Special Programs in the Division of Extramural Activities of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases (NIAID)

Biographical Sketch

Gregory Milman, Ph.D., is Director of the Office of Innovations and Special Programs in the Division of Extramural Activities of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases (NIAID). He is responsible for multi-institute and multi-agency science initiatives and outreach activities, and he represents NIH to academic institutions, organizations and societies, the biotechnology industry, and state and local governments. Dr. Milman manages the NIAID small business programs and is acclaimed for his advice on grant preparation and research funding (http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/impatica/). Dr. Milman serves on the Board of Directors of the Biotechnology Industry Organization Council of Biotechnology Centers (http://www.bio.org/aboutbio/cbc.html), the NIH Trans-Agency Complementary and Alternative Medicine Coordinating Committee (http://nccam.nih.gov/), and the NIH Committee for Electronic Research Administration (http://era.nih.gov/).

Dr. Milman received a B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College in 1962, a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University in 1968, and postdoctoral training with Marshall Nirenberg at NIH. He was Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley from 1970-76, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Immunology at Johns Hopkins University from 1976-1988, and he is currently Visiting Professor in Honors at the University of Maryland College Park. In 1985, he obtained NIH Small Business funding (SBIR) to start a biotechnology company focusing on viral diagnostics with an emphasis on Epstein-Barr virus, Burkett's lymphoma, mononucleosis and hepatitis B virus. From 1988-1999, Dr. Milman was responsible for NIAID's $70 million basic AIDS research program as Pathogenesis Branch Chief in the Division of AIDS where he established the NIH Centers for AIDS Research (CFARs) (http://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/cfar/) and the AIDS Reagent Program (http://www.aidsreagent.org/). He was the NIH representative to the MRC AIDS Collaborative Program, the Pasteur Institute, and the WHO AIDS Programme. In 1994, he was the NIH representative in the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Senior Executive Fellows Program. From 1997 to 2000, Dr. Milman organized the NIH Bioengineering Consortium (BECON - (http://www.becon1.nih.gov/becon.htm) and acted as its first Executive Secretary. In 2000, Dr. Milman served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (http://www.ostp.gov/). Dr. Milman is a member of the American Society for Microbiology and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

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