Alan M. Krensky

He was previously senior investigator in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and served as the first director of the Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI) and a deputy director of NIH.

[1] He was Associate Dean for Children’s Health and the Shelagh Galligan Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University.

Krensky was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1951 and attended New Trier High School (East).

[7] Roadmap projects are designed to rapidly respond to emerging scientific opportunities and public health needs.

He led the development of the [Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC)] system,[8] a computerized tool to permit transparent accounting of NIH funding, and a Science of Science Management effort to develop metrics for accountability in scientific progress.