Summer Research Education Experience Program (R25), NRSA Predoctoral Fellowships for Dual Degree Students (F30 and F31), Child Neurologist Career Development Program (K12)
Marguerite Matthews, PhD is a Program Director in the Office of Training and Workforce Development, where she manages funding opportunities that support the science education and research training for individuals at the high school, college, postbaccalaureate, early-stage graduate school, and clinical fellowship levels. She also serves as the Other Transactions Program Officer for the NIH HEAL Initiative Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Program, supporting Tribes and Native Serving Organizations to build research capacity and conduct community-led and prioritized research to address overdose, substance use, and pain.
Prior to working at NINDS, Dr. Matthews came to NIH as a 2016-2018 AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the Office of Extramural Research, within the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce and the Division of Loan Repayment. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Oregon Health & Science University, where she examined the development of the human brain using functional and structural neuroimaging. She earned a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh, studying the development of the dopamine system during adolescence, and a BS in biochemistry from Spelman College.