Dr. Mildred A. Pointer serves as the Chairperson of the Department of Biology at Howard University. Dr. Pointer has been continually funded as a PI of projects since 2005, four years after joining the faculty at NCCU with the charge of establishing an independent research program. Since that time, individual projects have brought in over $5.3 million in direct and indirect and an additional $8 million in direct and indirect as multiple PI of a program grant.