New Staff in OER's Policy Office

The OER family is always growing. Recently we were honored to welcome two new members to the Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration.

Emily Linde joined OER in the Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration as a Grants Policy Analyst in December 2009. She has been with the National Institutes of Health for 11 years, most recently as a Grants Management Specialist for the National Cancer Institute. In this role she managed the grant programs for the Center for Scientific and Strategic Initiatives and the NCI construction program. She began her tenure with the NIH at the National Human Genome Research Institute, where she was a program assistant and the coordinator for the National Human Genome Research Council. As a member of the Grants Policy Division, she is responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining grants policy.

Sahar Rais joined OER in the Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration as an Assistant Compliance Officer in January 2010. She has worked in the fields of grants management, policy and compliance within the federal government and the grantee community for the past seven years. She began her tenure with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the National Institutes on Aging as a graduate student and most recently worked for the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) as a Grants Management Specialist. Prior to working at NIAID, she spent several years on the grantee side working in sponsored research offices at research organizations and large research universities in California.