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Weijia Ni, Ph.D.
Division of AIDS, Behavioral and Population Sciences

Scientific Review Officer
Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes (BBBP)
Fellowship: Cognition, Language and Perception (F12A)

NIH/CSR
Center for Scientific Review, Room 3184
6701 Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD 20892

Email: niw@csr.nih.gov

Phone Number: 301-237-9918

Dr. Weijia Ni serves as Scientific Review Officer for CSR’s Language and Communication Study Section. He also serves as Referral Officer assigning applications to be reviewed by the Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes Integrated Review Group (IRG), and the Risk Prevention and Health Behavior IRG. Dr. Ni came to CSR from Yale University School of Medicine, where his research focused on speech and reading processing disability using functional neuroimaging, psychophysiological measurements, and computational modeling. He published findings on distinctive markers of syntactic and semantic processes in eye movement patterns, and in brain activation patterns. Dr. Ni completed his post-doctoral training in research on speech disorders at Haskins Laboratories after receiving his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Connecticut. He is a member of the Academy of Aphasia, and his research on patients with severe brain damage demonstrated that their language functions could be retained or recovered, due largely to cerebral plasticity.