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Associate Director, Research Coordination, Planning and Translation
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health
As Associate Director of Research Coordination, Planning and Translation, Dr. Allen Dearry oversees the NIEHS Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation; Office of Communications and Public Liaison; Office of Technology Transfer; Library and Information Services; publication of Environmental Health Perspectives; and a number of Institute outreach and educational activities, including town meetings that are held across the country to gather public input.
Prior to this position, Dr. Dearry served for six years as Chief of the Susceptibility and Population Health Branch within the Division of Extramural Research and Training, NIEHS. He reorganized and directed NIEHS Core Center programs, including Environmental Health Science, Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Science, and Developmental Centers. He played a major role in establishing and then directing NIEHS/EPA-supported Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research. In addition, he initiated and managed NIEHS programs in translational environmental health research, including Health Disparities, Environmental Justice, Community-Based Participatory Research, and K-12 Environmental Health Science Education.
Dr. Dearry has received a number of NIEHS and NIH awards, as well as two DHHS Secretary’s Awards for Distinguished Service for providing leadership on issues related to possible health effects of exposure to Pfiesteria toxins (1998) and for generating a public health and research response to the World Trade Center disaster (2002).
He received a Ph.D. in anatomy in 1981 from the University of Pennsylvania, where his research addressed the mechanism of visual transduction in retinal photoreceptors. From 1981-1988, Dr. Dearry was first a postdoctoral fellow and then an Assistant Research Professor of physiology at the University of California, Berkeley, where his work dealt with pharmacological mechanisms of signal processing. As an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Ophthalmology at Duke University Medical Center, 1988-1990, Dr. Dearry played a key role in cloning the gene for the human D1 dopaminergic receptor; he has two US patents for this and subsequent investigations.