Administration
Tammy Willis
Operations Manager
Tammy oversees U2M2 planning, budgeting, forecasting, grant reporting and departmental financial reports, post-award grant budgets and serves as liaison with faculty home departments. In addition to supervising the U2M2 administrative staff, she coordinates HR components, payroll, and procurement. She also interfaces with university resources for building maintenance/upgrade, and inventory, manages purchasing approvals, P Card, and serves as faculty liaison.
Antoinette Blair
Program Manager
Toni proficiently manages U2M2 Program activities, including tracking and evaluation of Program metrics, communication and outreach, and interfacing with intramural and extramural researchers, departments, and programs.
Diana lim
Scientific graphic Illustrations Project manager
Diana offers graphics project assistance to U2M2 faculty by processing laboratory data into figures for manuscripts, grants, posters, and assorted professional presentations. With a background in digital scientific illustration techniques, she is a resource to instructors, fellows, post-docs and graduate students on appropriate and hands-on usage of Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Prism, Excel, PowerPoint, and microscopy-based software packages.
Dave Meanea
Research Manager
Dave applies his extensive accounting and data management experience in supporting Molecular Medicine’s grants and contracts. His expertise has helped improve existing tracking metrics to ensure compliance with grantor funding requirements.
Brandie Thomas
Pre-Award Grant / Contract Officer II / Public Notary
Brandie guides U2M2 Investigators through the administrative process of grant proposals. She provides support services and expertise for the submission and processing of new awards. As an official public notary, she also can assist with witnessing documents.
Pre-Award Grant / Contract Officer
Collaborates with the Principal Investigators (PI) and the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) performing administrative and technical functions associated with grants from external sources. Provides Pre-Award guidance to the PIs with regard to eligibility, proposal preparation, budget development, and submission processes.
Arahka Sallmon
Post-Award Grant / Contract Officer I / Public Notary
Arahka assists with the management of established U2M2 grants and contracts. She provides support for project setups and closeouts and budget tracking throughout the life of the project. As an official public notary, she also can assist with witnessing documents.
Administrative Assistant
Provides a vast array of support services for the U2M2 Program including posting available positions and processing new hires, helping with visa applications, assisting with Kronos, payroll, and employee reimbursements. Also helps coordinate travel, meetings and events, and schedules conference rooms.