Newswise — David Kroll, Ph.D., a senior research pharmacologist at RTI International, has been appointed as a subject matter expert on a federal advisory committee that evaluates the scientific merit of research to develop new anti-cancer drugs.
Kroll will serve a four-year term as a member of the Basic Mechanisms of Cancer Therapeutics (BMCT) Study Section of the NIH's Center for Scientific Review. In that role he will review NIH grant applications, make recommendations concerning those applications and survey the status of oncology drug discovery research.
"I am honored and excited to join such a well-respected group of leading researchers from across the country," Kroll said. "I am looking forward to this unique opportunity to contribute to the national biomedical research effort."
Kroll has led cancer pharmacology research in RTI's Natural Products Laboratory since joining the company in 2002. He also is an adjunct associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center and an adjunct associate professor of pharmacotherapy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Kroll serves on other review panels for the National Cancer Institute and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and is a member of the Medical Journalism Graduate Advisory Board at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An author of more than 50 manuscripts, reviews, book chapters, and a book on botanical dietary supplements, Kroll also is a member of the academy of President's Teaching Scholars at the University of Colorado where he received 11 teaching awards.
Kroll earned a doctorate degree in pharmacology and therapeutics from the University of Florida and earned a bachelor of science degree in toxicology from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.
Members of the Center for Scientific Review are chosen based on their achievement in their scientific discipline, marked by research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors. Service on a study section also requires mature judgment and objectivity as well as the ability to work effectively in a group.
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