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Paired Ends: Marjorie Tingle

Dec 14, 2011
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Marjorie Tingle has left her position as director of the Shared Instrumentation Grant program and the High-End Instrumentation grant program at the National Center for Research Resources. Abraham Levy is acting program director.

Tingle has served in the National Institutes of Health's Division of Research Resources and then the NCRR since 1975, developing several programs including the SIG program, which she directed since its inception in 1982.

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