skip navigation links
Subscribe
MySciNet

National Postdoctoral Association

URL: http://www.nationalpostdoc.org

Introduction

The National Postdoctoral Association is a professional association that provides a unique, national voice for postdoctoral scholars. The mission of the NPA is to advance the U.S. research enterprise by maximizing the effectiveness of the research community and enhancing the quality of the postdoctoral experience for all participants. Since its founding, the NPA has assumed a leadership role in addressing the many issues confronting the postdoctoral community that are national in scope and require action beyond the local level. Key alliances are being forged at all levels, and new standards and policies proposed by NPA are being considered and adopted by federal agencies and research institutions throughout the United States.

The NPA, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was founded in 2003. The NPA is supported by its members and charitable contributions from those who support its mission, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The support of these organizations and the hard work and dedication of NPA's small staff and its volunteer Board and Committees have resulted in a non-profit organization that today has more than 3,000 registered individual members and 163 institutional members that represent more than 40,000 postdoctoral scholars.

Announcements

Biographies

Cancer Researcher Elected to Serve as Chair of NPA Board

Cancer Researcher Elected to Serve as Chair of NPA Board

Dr. Stacy Gelhaus has been elected to serve as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA). Gelhaus is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Cancer Pharmacology, directed by Ian Blair, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gelhaus has served on the NPA board since January. Her one-year term as chair begins on January 1, 2009.

She said, "I am very honored to have been elected Chair of the NPA Board. The NPA is a young organization that has already had great success in providing postdocs with a unified voice, and I hope to strengthen its national presence during my tenure as chair."

Her current research is focused on the metabolic activation of environmental carcinogens and their contribution to lung cancer. Her doctoral research examined novel separations of nucleic acids using ion-pairing reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (IP-RPLC). She earned her Bachelor's degree in biology and biochemistry from Mount Saint Mary's University, and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

Among her many awards is the National Research Service Award, which she received from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in 2007.

In addition to her research interests, Dr. Gelhaus has been very active as a member of the Biomedical Postdoc Council at Penn, and has served as co-chair of that group since 2006.