speaker
Nisha Venugopal
PhD
Medicine
Cell and Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology
Bengaluru, India
Nisha Venugopal is the Program Manager at IndoUSrare. She has a PhD in Life Sciences from the CSIR – Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), India, where she studied the role of the primary cilium in adult skeletal muscle stem cells. Her postdoctoral research at the Institute for Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, India involved a detailed analysis of global clinical trial registries. Nisha hopes to use her experience in the cell biology of rare diseases and policy research to support and help patients gain access to life-saving therapies through research, outreach, and advocacy efforts to drive policy changes in favor of rare disease patients in India.