Research Updates in Kidney and Urologic Health

DKUHD Welcomes Expert in Genetics and Cell Biology

Rebekah S. Rasooly, Ph.D., has joined the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases (DKUHD) in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). She has worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1999, when she joined the Genetics and Molecular Neurobiology Research Branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). In that position, Dr. Rasooly was responsible for coordinating NIDA's microarray research effort and developing a portfolio of genetics and cell biology studies that lend insight into the basic biology of addiction.

At NIDDK, she will bring expertise in genomics and her experience with the human and model organism genome projects to the DKUHD. Her responsibilities include developing a portfolio of genetics and genomics grants, serving as a genetics resource contact for ongoing clinical studies, and continuing to serve on the Trans-NIH Non-Mammalian Models, Mouse Genomics and Genetics Resources Committees. In addition, she will serve as secretary of the Trans-NIH Zebrafish Coordinating Committee.

Dr. Rasooly did her undergraduate work at Harvard, and received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1989. She continued her training as a Belfer postdoctoral fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and then became Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Biology at St. John's University. Subsequently, she served as a Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University and as Assistant Deputy Scientific Director for the OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) database. Her research focused on cell divisions in Drosophila and was funded both by NIH and the National Science Foundation.

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