Kenneth (Kenny) Gibbs, Jr., PhD, is Chief of the Undergraduate and Predoctoral Cross-Disciplinary Training Branch within the Division of Training, Workforce Development and Diversity (TWD) at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). In this role, he oversees the institute’s long standing programs to enhance diversity (MARC, RISE, IMSD, PREP, Bridges), as well as institutional components of the NIH Common Fund’s Diversity Program Consortium (BUILD, SPAD, DPC DaTA). At NIGMS, he also is a Program Director in the Division Genetics & Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology where leads and administers grants to promote basic research in the area of stem
cell biology.