Cheri Giusto

Cheri Giusto is the Food Allergy Science Initiative’s (FASI) Grants Operations Manager, where she leads the day-to-day operations behind the organization’s federally funded research portfolio. She brings extensive experience in grants and contracts administration, with a background supporting NIH, DoD, NASA, and SBIR/STTR programs. At FASI, she is focused on strengthening grants processes and operations as the organization’s research program continues to grow.

Before joining FASI, Cheri held senior grants and contracts roles at Vivonics, Inc. and Lila Sciences. At Vivonics, she managed the full grant lifecycle, including proposal development, budgeting, contract negotiations, post-award compliance, intellectual property and patent reporting, and subcontractor management. At Lila Sciences, she supported pre-award operations, working with internal teams on proposal coordination, sponsor compliance, and public-sector funding strategy.

Cheri holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, bringing a distinctive creative perspective to research administration. She has drawn on that background throughout her career to develop proposal graphics that communicate complex information clearly and strengthen competitive positioning. Her design background includes an early career role at City Sports, where she helped shape visual branding and marketing initiatives. She later spent several years at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she supported clinical operations and contributed to digital transformation initiatives, including a hospital-wide Epic systems rollout, earning the Partners in Excellence Award and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Service Award.

Cheri is excited to bring her combination of grants expertise, operational leadership, and creative problem-solving to FASI’s mission of advancing breakthrough research for people living with food allergies.