•Provided programmatic support for $20M Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) for Capacity Building and Research Collaboration, including development of Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs), correspondence with applicants, data collection and analysis on program impact, budget evaluations, and developing press release documents. •Organized an outreach event at the University of Oklahoma to promote DoD basic research opportunities to over 140 academic researchers. •Provided program oversight and coordination for $220M Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), including evaluating scientific topics to be included in FOAs, corresponding with awardees and planning annual program reviews. •Developed talking points, presentation slides, Congressional briefings, reports, memoranda, and other documentation for DoD leadership. •Provided programmatic support to the DoD Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program including correspondence with awardees and tracking of awardees’ progress.•Maintained broad situational awareness of Research and Development efforts involving basic research.

- Provided grant and program management and evaluation support for Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (OUSD) for Research & Engineering, Science & Technology Foundations.- Provided health policy analysis and subject matter expertise for OUSD - Personnel & Readiness, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Health Readiness Policy & Oversight.

Conducted independent research to evaluate sex-specific physiological differences of Type 2 diabetes by investigating the effects of high insulin on the microvasculature of male and female rats. Developed novel methods of measuring microvascular permeability in rat mesentery microvessels, using fluorescently tagged albumin proteins as markers for leakage.