Norma Suazo Galeano has been living in Nashville since March 2017. She moved to Tennessee to Join the VCC as a Research Specialist II. She is a foreign graduate medical doctor from the country of Honduras, where she worked as Primary care physician in the country serving underserved populations around the country, and worked as a liaison between the nonprofit organization, medical doctors, volunteers and the government leaders of the country. Her field of practice includes public health, Child and maternal care as well as general surgery. Norma, also had a position at Georgia Southern University as a research assistant for project Salud es Vida.
Norma is married and have two children who keeps her busy but in her spare time She enjoys traveling, volunteering and exploring Nashville’s great outdoors.
Janee started her career with Vanderbilt in 2013 as a Patient Service Representative and quickly moved to Pre-Appointment Coordinator then a Senior Access Coordinator all in the department of Pediatrics Otolaryngology. In 2018 she then moved to Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery as a Senior Administrative Assistant. She enjoys traveling, watching movies and spending time with my family.
Ginger DeBellis is a Project Manager for the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center. She received her B.S. in Biology from Hawaii Pacific University. Ginger spent several years working on Next Generation Sequencing research projects at the Genomic Core Facility at Pennsylvania State University.
Heather is originally from Lindenhurst, Illinois – about halfway between Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI. She graduated from University of Wisconsin Parkside in 2008, where she earned her Bachelors degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. She started her research career at Vanderbilt in 2009 as a research assistant in the Center for Structural Biology Megalab. In 2015, Heather joined the laboratory of Prof. Jens Meiler as laboratory manager. She contributed to research projects on the structural characterization of HoxA11 and structure determination of DsbB using paramagnetic restraints.
Although research was the foundation of her training, she took an interest in the administrative side of research. To improve her skillset, Heather attended conferences offered by both NCURA and SRAi where she received certificates in Fundamentals of Sponsored Project Administration, Departmental Research Administration, Leadership, Financial Management, & Research Integrity. These helped her transition to the role of Manager of Research Programs. Heather has worked closely with the Crowe Lab administrative team for a number of years for the Symposium on Modeling Immunity in 2016, 2017, & 2019. In December 2020 she received her PMP certification. She is a current Project Management Institute (PMI) and Society of Research Administrators International (SRAi) member. She was named a SRAi 'Future of the Field' honoree in 2022.
Alexander Bunnell is an Associate Project Manager for the VVC. He is a graduate of Lipscomb University where he studied Project Management and Corporate Management. He provides support for the planning, developing and executing of day to day projects. He manages intellectual property, material requests and CDA requests, in addition to assisting with grant and contract progress reports. He is also an acting liaison between CTTC and the lab and assists the Senior Program Manager with collaboration management.
Dr. Georgiev received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University. In 2009 he joined the newly formed Structural Bioinformatics Core Section at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) on the main NIH campus in Bethesda, MD, where he served as a staff scientist and co-head until 2015. Dr. Georgiev is now a faculty member at the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and an Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and of Computer Science at Vanderbilt.
Hello, I'm Tracy Martin. I am originally from Nashville, and I have lived many different places over the years, but landed back in Tennessee to settle down just outside of Nashville. I graduated from Western Governors University with a degree in Business and Human Resources Management, with a strong concentration in Accounting and Finance principles. I am in my twenty-fifth year with VUMC, having worked in the Children’s Hospital in Pediatric and Adolescent inpatient units, Myelosuppression and Hematology/Oncology units, and Nursing Administration for the first twenty-one years and in Infectious Diseases at the Comprehensive Care Center with the Southeast AIDS Education & Training Center since 2015 on a grant for educating providers who care for people living with HIV. Outside of work, you would most likely find me reading, working in my yard planting flowers and trees, or exploring new places with my camera.