NIH Roadmap for Medical Research—One Year Later

Speaker Biographies

Robert Star, M.D.
Senior Advisor for Clinical Research
Office of Science Policy
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health

Dr. Robert Star is a nephrologist who a Senior Advisor for Clinical Research, Office for Science Policy and Planning, Office of Science Policy, Office of the Director, NIH. He works on clinical research issues for the NIH Roadmap, and co-chairs the Trans-NIH Clinical Research Workforce Committee. He is also a Senior Scientific Advisor in the Division of Kidney, Hematologic and Urologic Diseases in the National Institutes of Diabetics and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health. He is also a senior investigator in NIDDK and Chief of the Renal Diagnostics and Therapeutics Unit. His laboratory develops new methods to diagnose and treat acute renal failure. He moved to the NIH 5 years ago from UT-Southwestern Medical Center, where he was a Professor of Internal Medicine.

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