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Leadership | NIGMS

NIGMS Acting Director

Erica Brown, Ph.D.

Acting Director, National Institute of General Medicine Sciences

Learn more about Erika Brown

Office of the Director

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Darren Sledjeski, Ph.D.

Acting Deputy Director

Ariel Zane, Ph.D.

Acting Associate Director for Extramural Activities

Jennifer Day

Acting Executive Officer

Richard Aragon, Ph.D.

Legislative Liaison

Strategic Coordination

Eddie Billingslea

Eddie Billingslea, Ph.D.

Small Business Strategy Coordinator, Office of the Director

Claudia Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Workforce Management, Office of the Director

Nathan Moore

Nathan Moore, Ph.D.

Senior Advisor for Data Science , Office of the Director

Della Brown White

Della White, Ph.D.

Clinical Research Strategy Coordinator, Office of the Director

Previous NIGMS Directors

Name	In Office from	To
Clinton C. Powell	July 1962	July 1964
Frederick L. Stone	August 1964	April 1970
DeWitt Stetten, Jr.	October 1970	August 1974
Ruth L. Kirschstein	September 1974	July 1993
Marvin Cassman (Acting)	July 1993	August 1996
Marvin Cassman	August 1996	May 2002
Judith H. Greenberg (Acting)	May 2002	November 2003
Jeremy M. Berg	November 2003	July 2011
Judith H. Greenberg (Acting)	July 2011	July 2013
Jon R. Lorsch	August 2013	2025