Nalini Raghavachari's Biography

Nalini Raghavachari, Scientist/Director, National Institutes of Health

Nalini Raghavachari received her Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University of Madras, India. She has had post doctoral trainings in the field of genomics at Plant Genetic Engineering Laboratory in New Mexico, Baylor College of Medicine and University of Nebraska –Lincoln. Afterwards she worked as a drug development Scientist in Procertus Biopharma in Madison-Wisconsin followed by a Senior Research Scientist position in Corning Life Sciences division developing genomic tools for biomarker discovery. She joined NIH in 2003 and currently she is the co-director of the DNA Sequencing and Genomics Core Facility in NHLBI.