Rashmi Gopal-Srivastava
National Institutes of Health, USA
Biography
Rashmi Gopal-Srivastava currently serves as the Director of the Extramural Research Program in the Office of Rare Diseases Research. She leads the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN), a multidisciplinary national program. She collaborates with 10 NIH Institutes to manage 22 consortia and a central Data Management Coordinating Center. She has been the recipient of the NIH Individual Merit Award numerous times. She also has received recognition from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for outstanding community services and NIH’s Asian Pacific Islander American Organization’s outstanding achievement award for excellence in science. She is an advocate for women in science and has recently been interviewed for the “Women of Color Scientists at NIH” and featured and showcased in “Women in Science at the National Institutes of Health 2007-2008”.
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