Allen Dearry, Ph.D. has been at NIH since 1990. As Director of the Office of Scientific Information Management at NIEHS, he provides senior leadership in the effort to define, plan, and evaluate scientific data and knowledge management approaches in environmental health. Before coming to NIH, Dearry received a Ph.D. in Anatomy from the University of Pennsylvania; was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley; and an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Ophthalmology at Duke University Medical Center, where he cloned the gene for the human D1 dopaminergic receptor. He has two U.S. patents for this and subsequent investigations.