Marianne Krall Henderson (born September 1, 1962) is an American
biomedical scientist specialized in
biobanks and
biorepositories. She is a senior advisor on
biospecimen
A biological specimen (also called a biospecimen) is a biological laboratory specimen held by a biorepository for research. Such a specimen would be taken by sampling so as to be representative of any other specimen taken from the source of t ...
resources at the
National Cancer Institute. Henderson was president of the
from 2011 to 2012.
Life
Marianne Martha Krall was born September 1, 1962, in
Bethesda, Maryland, to Bettijane and Albert Krall.
She graduated from
Richard Montgomery High School in 1980.
Henderson Completed a B.S. (1984) in zoology and a M.S. (1988) in zoology and marine biology from the
University of Maryland, College Park.
She studied fish communities in the
Red Sea.
She completed a M.S. in Zoology and Marine Biology in 1988.
Henderson's master's thesis was titled ''Vertical Resource Partitioning and Sexuality of Three Sympatric Species of Red Sea Sandfishes (Xyrichtys melanopus, labridae: Trichonotus nikii, triconotidae; and Gorgasia sp., congridae)''.
Her major advisor was
Eugenie Clark.
She was a teaching assistant at the University of Maryland from 1984 to 1987.
From 1999 to 2015, Henderson served as chief of the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) division of cancer epidemiology and genetics' (DCEG) office of division operations and analysis.
As of 2022, she is the senior advisor for NCI division resources for the DCEG. Henderson is also a senior advisor on
biobanking
A biobank is a type of biorepository that stores biological samples (usually human) for use in research. Biobanks have become an important resource in medical research, supporting many types of contemporary research like genomics and personaliz ...
to the NCI center for global health.
Henderson is responsible and involved in project operations and contract management, fiscal and scientific reporting;
strategic planning
Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to attain strategic goals.
It may also extend to control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of the st ...
;
technology transfer; and laboratory/
biorepository infrastructure planning for largescale molecular epidemiology studies.
She is a founding member of the NCI biospecimen coordinating committee and participated in the development and revision of the first and second editions of NCI’s best practices for biospecimen resources.
Since 1999, Henderson has been a member of the
(ISBER) and served as ISBER president from 2011 to 2012.
Henderson is involved in human biospecimen management process improvements in processing, handling, technology transfer, and repository automation.
References
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Living people
1962 births
People from Bethesda, Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
National Institutes of Health people
American women biologists
21st-century American zoologists
21st-century American women scientists
Presidents of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories