Matthew Portnoy, Ph.D.

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Responsibilities & Activities

I support and work closely with the DEA Director in all Division activities related to:

• NIDDK receipt, referral and peer review
• Grants Management
• Development, implementation, and coordination of NIDDK extramural programs and policies
• Committee Management
• Disease coding
• NIH Guide publication of NIDDK Notices and Notices of Funding Opportunities
• DEA operations

As the Senior Advisor on Innovation and Biomedical Product Assessment to the Director, I provide expert advice and leadership on Small Business Innovation Research/Small business Technology Transfer Research (SBIR/STTR) and Prize/Challenge activities to develop relevant and innovative biomedical products in areas that will advance NIDDK’s mission to conduct and support medical research and research training and to disseminate science-based information on diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases, to improve people’s health and quality of life.

I have participated in the NIH Senior Leadership Program and various professional development programs.

Committees & Working Groups

• NIH Extramural Program Management Committee, Alternate
• NIDDK Commercial Management Office
• NIH DEA Deputy Directors
• NIH Challenge/Prize Managers

Select Experience

Director, Division of Special Programs; Director of NIH SBIR/STTR Programs, Office of the Director, Office of Extramural Research, NIH, 2010-2019
Program Director, Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology, NIGMS, NIH, 2005-201
Postdoctoral fellow, Genome Technology Branch, NHGRI, NIH, 2001-2005
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, 2001
B.S., Penn State University, 1996
Last Reviewed February 2025