Nalini Raghavachari

Biography

Nalini Raghavachari, Ph.D. joined NIA's Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology in 2013 as a program officer in the Clinical Gerontology Branch and is currently focusing on building research programs on the genetics of exceptional longevity, healthy aging, Omics in exceptional aging and translational genomics. Dr. Raghavachari received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Madras, India. She performed post-doctoral training in the Plant Genetic Engineering Laboratory in Las Cruces, NM, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and Texas A& M University in College Station, focusing on cardiovascular genetics and genomics. She was later a NIH research fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln studying thiol repair systems in senile cataractogenesis. Dr. Raghavachari began her NIH career at the Clinical Center in 2003 as director of the Sickle Cell Genomics Program in the Critical Care Medicine Department.

Research Interest

Genetic Epidemiology, Genetics of human longevity, Translational genomics