Harsha K Rajasimha
George Mason University, USA
Biography
Harsha K Rajasimha is internationally recognized in the field of life sciences consulting, systems biology, healthcare IT systems integration, BigData analytics, genomics of rare diseases and precision medicine. He is currently the Global Head of life sciences R&D at Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences (acquired by NTT DATA Inc.), Founder President of Jeeva Informatics and Founder Board Member of the non-profit organization for rare diseases India, Affiliate Faculty and Co-Director of the Center for Metabolic and Rare Diseases at George Mason University. He was the global Vice President at Strand Life Sciences, a precision medicine company that develops genomics-based clinical lab-developed tests for cancer and inherited diseases. In collaboration with Rare Genomics Institute, he has received the Sanofi Genzyme’s rare diseases Patient Advocacy Leadership award in 2016. He has authored over 15 peer-reviewed articles and is often invited speaker at conferences. He has earned Baccalaureate degree in Computer Science from Bangalore University, Master’s in Computer Science and Doctorate in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Virginia Tech.