Robert Rivers, Ph.D.
Program Director:
Office of Minority Health Research Coordination
Short-Term Research Experience Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP); F31- Diversity; and Research Supplements.
Responsibilities & Activities
I am a program director in the Office of Minority Health Research Coordination (OMHRC) and lead both the Short-Term Research Experience Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP), Diversity F31s, Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research and Supplemental Funding to Promote Re-Entry into Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
Select Experience
Program Manager, Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, NCI, 2011-2015
AAAS Science; Technology Policy Fellow, National Cancer Institute, 2009-2011
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 2008
B.S. in Chemistry, Kentucky State University, 2003