NIH Roadmap for Medical Research

Speaker Biographies

Norka Ruiz Bravo, Ph.D.

Norka Ruiz Bravo is the NIH deputy director for extramural research. She started at NIH in 1990 as a scientific review administrator in the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Since then, Ruiz Bravo has held positions such as program director for the NIGMS Division of Genetics & Development Biology and most recently associate director for extramural activities at NIGMS. After earning a Ph.D. in biology from Yale University, Ruiz Bravo completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry and molecular biology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center. Before going to NIH, Ruiz Bravo was an assistant professor in the departments of urology and cell biology at Baylor College of Medicine.

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