Email: lcampbel@aaas.org

Lara Campbell
Senior Program Associate, Research Competitiveness Program

Lara Campbell is a Senior Program Associate with the Research Competitiveness Service, which provides review, evaluation, and guidance to the science and engineering community on the development of quality research programs. She is also a Program Associate with the AAAS Fellowships Program, which brings professional scientists to Washington DC for a year to advise and learn from policy makers. There, she manages the AAAS Defense Policy, Department of Homeland Security, and AAAS/NTI Global Security Fellowships.

Prior to joining AAAS, Lara was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, where her research focused on the effects of HIV infection on cellular redox. Before that she served as lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, where she taught Introductory Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry and conducted research on the protein complexes controlling translation initiation. She holds the Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. The focus of her graduate work was the design and synthesis of asymmetric organometallic catalysts and development of bioorganic cross-linking reagents. Her bachelors degree, also in chemistry, is from Rice University, where she participated in research on asymmetric catalytic hydroboration. Lara has studied Arabic for many years. Despite her knowledge of statistics, she continues to ride a motorcycle.