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Johanna Camara (Fed)
Research Chemist
Johanna began her employment at NIST as an NRC Postdoctoral Associate. Her activities have encompassed a wide variety of areas, including: MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry of bacteria, molecular cloning of stable-isotope labeled proteins for mass spectral internal standards, and the quantification of small organic molecules in pharmaceuticals, foods, and clinical biological SRMs with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. She has served as a research mentor in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program at NIST. Johanna is also the Technical Project Leader for a large portfolio of clinical Standard Reference Materials, as well as the Quality Manager and Deputy Group Leader for the Organic Chemical Metrology Group.
Membership and Professional Activities:
- Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology Consensus Committee
- Member, 2013 - 2015
- Chemistry and Toxicology Expert Review Panel Chairholder, 2016 - 2018
- Chemistry and Toxicology Expert Review Panel Member, 2019 - 2022
- NIST delegate to CLSI, 2013 - present - CLSI Document Development Committee for Revision of CLSI EP30 Characterization and Qualification of Commutable Reference Materials for Laboratory Medicine, 2021-2024
- US Technical Advisory Group to ISO/TC212 Clinical laboratory testing and in vitro diagnostic test systems
- Voting member, 2013 - present
- Executive Committee Member 2017 - 2022 - Washington Chromatography Discussion Group
- Committee member, 2005 - 2007 - IFCC Working Group-Commutability, 2014-2019
- IFCC Working Group-Vitamin D Standardization Program, 2018-2019
- IFCC Working Group-Commutability in Metrological Traceability, 2020-present
- IFCC Working Group-Neonatal Bilirubin, 2022-present
- IFCC Working Group-Standardization of Albumin Assay in Urine (WG-SAU) - in collaboration with NIDDK, 2026
- The Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (JCTLM) Task Force on Reference Measurement System Implementation (TF-RMSI), 2020-present
- JCTLM Strategy Task Group, 2023
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Human Systems, Biological Tissues, Bioengineering, and Agricultural Working Group, 2023-present
- CCQM-Organic Analytical Working Group Task Group on Clinical/Toxicology Sector, 2025-present
- Diabetes Technology Society Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Guideline Panel, 2026
Awards
- COSMOS Club Grants-in-Aid to Young Scholars, 2004
- CSTL Exploratory Research Proposal, FY2006
- NIST Materials Measurement Laboratory Outreach Accolade for developing and leading a week-long training course on isotope dilution-mass spectrometry in clinical measurements for staff from six National Metrology Institutes, 2017
- 2018 Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award for Advancing Vitamin D Metrology
- 2023 NIST Bronze Medal Award for ABACUS (Application for Bayesian Analysis of Chemical quantities Using Shiny) Tool
- 2024 Department of Commerce Gold Award for development of a first-of-its-kind urine reference material to promote accuracy in kidney disease diagnosis and monitoring.