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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.

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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.

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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