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Arati Prabhakar is an advisor to US President Biden on science
Dr. Arati Prabhakar will be leading the core science team as the US embarks on a journey to travel farther into space, investigate quantum physics, and carry out ground-breaking scientific testing.
Dr. Prabhakar, who was born in India and was reared in Texas, has long experience in the public sector and has served as the president of several important organizations.
President Biden’s cancer moonshot effort will be led by Dr. Arati Prabhakar, who must face the senate and get confirmation to take the top position.
The 63-year-old will succeed Eric Lander, who stepped down from the position in February after acknowledging that he had mistreated his employees and fostered a hostile work environment.
The applied physicist, a seasoned veteran of Washington politics, was initially chosen by the Clinton administration in 1993 to lead the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
She relocated to the West Coast after serving her term was up, where she worked as a venture investor for nearly two decades in Silicon Valley.
Dr. Arati Prabhakar will be leading the core science team as the US embarks on a journey to travel farther into space, investigate quantum physics, and carry out ground-breaking scientific testing.
Dr. Prabhakar, who was born in India and was reared in Texas, has long experience in the public sector and has served as the president of several important organisations.
President Biden’s cancer moonshot effort will be led by Dr. Arati Prabhakar, who must face the senate and get confirmation to take the top position.
The 63-year-old will succeed Eric Lander, who stepped down from the position in February after acknowledging that he had mistreated his employees and fostered a hostile work environment.
The applied physicist, a seasoned veteran of Washington politics, was initially chosen by the Clinton administration in 1993 to lead the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
She relocated to the West Coast after serving her term was up, where she worked as a venture investor for nearly two decades in Silicon Valley.
