Mr. Soukas joined the OTT in 1998. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the American Intellectual Property Law Association and is a 1998 graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Prior to joining the NIH, Fatima Sayyid was with the International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovations Research at the Columbia University Medical Center. Before attaining her multidisciplinary graduate degree, Ms. Sayyid was with the Reproductive Sciences Program, a division of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Michigan Health System. Ms. Sayyid has a Masters in Health Policy and Management from Columbia University and a Bachelors degree in Biology from the University of Michigan-Flint.