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Hello, I am Venkat Rao

  • VP Strategy/CSO, Venesco, LLC

  • Chief Scientist, ERP International, LLC

  • Senior Principal, Dynamis

  • Program Director/Lead Strategist. Parsons, Health Security and Chem-Bio programs

  • Technical Fellow and Member of the Parsons Corporate Fellows Board of Directors

  • Founding Corporate Task Force Member, Parsons Diversity and Inclusion Initiative

  • Diplomate, American Board of Toxicology

  • Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University, School of Systems Biology

  • Chief Scientist, National Security Programs, CSC Defense Group

  • Awardee, CSC Leading Edge Forum 2011 Annual Paper Competition

  • Awardee, CSC Management Club White Hat Award for Outstanding Accomplishment.

  • Senior Fellow, CSC Defense Group

  • Director, Health Research and Informatics, DynCorp Government Services

  • Senior Scientist, Life Sciences Group, SAIC

  • Young Investigators Fellowship, US National Academy of Sciences 1993-94 Health Impact due to Air Pollution in the Czech and Slovak Republics.

  • Awardee, Robert C. Barnard Environmental Science Scholarship from the AAAS  for the best research contribution to EPA in the 1992 class of AAAS/EPA Environmental Science and Engineering Fellows.

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A LITTLE ABOUT ME

Dr. Venkat Rao is a nationally recognized biomedical subject matter expert with specialized research and training experience in biochemical pharmacology, health technology applications, risk analysis, medical countermeasures development R&D, and chemical-biological threat assessments. Dr. Rao was formerly a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences under the Young Investigators Program, Science and Technology Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Environmental Fellowship Program, and recipient of the AAAS Robert C. Barnard Environmental Scholar Award, and 1985 recipient of the International graduate scholarship of the Rotary International Foundation. He has published over 100 publications as papers in peer-review journals, book chapters, meetings proceedings and technical reports. Dr. Rao holds a PhD in Biochemistry and two master’s degree, one in Pharmacology and the other in Toxicology. He is Board certified by the American Board of Toxicology. He received the Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Science adjudged as the best PhD thesis of the graduating class. He held a Rockefeller University postdoctoral fellowship and did postdoctoral work at George Washington University Medical Center researching on chemical-biological interactions in lung cancer. Dr. Rao is invited to serve on expert panels, invited speaker, by the federal government agencies, industry groups, academic and professional organizations. As an expert toxicologist, he has served on several panels conveyed by the US Centers for Disease Control, Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry, US Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Department of Energy and has offered advice and technical testimonials to Hospitals, Public Health Laboratories, Insurance Companies and Law firms. 

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

Course of My Career

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Health Security

 Global Health

Biosecurity

Emerging Infectious Diseases

DNA

Biomedical Research

Biological Risk Assessment

Human Health Risk Assessment

Infectious Diseases Research

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Toxicology

Environmental Toxicology

Biosafety Practices

Modeling and Simulation

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Health Security

  • DiEuliis, D. Rao, V. Billings, E.A. Meyer, B. and Berger, K. 2019.
    Biodefense Policy Analysis—A Systems-based Approach.
    Health Security. 17(2): 1-17.

  •  Iravani, H and Rao, V. 2019. The Effects of New Urbanism on
    Public Health. 2019. Journal of Urban Design. Vol 25(2):218-235.

  •  Hamid Iravani and Rao, V. 2019. Health Benefits of New Urbanism.
    Public Square—A CNU Journal.   

  • Rao, V and E. Bordelon. 2018. Mobile High-Containment Biological
    Laboratories Deployment: Opportunities and Challenges in
    Expeditionary Deployments to Outbreak Response.
    Applied Biosafety. 24(1): 20-29. 

  • Rao, V. 2014. Systems Approach to Biosafety and Risk Assessment
    of Engineered Nanomaterials. Applied Biosafety, Vol. 19(1):11-19.

  • Rao, V. and Waite, C. 2012. Soft Regulatory Mechanisms and
    Open-Source Bioethics to Counter Biothreat Proliferation.
    Applied Biosafety, Vol. 17(3):110-119.

  • Rao, V. 2008. Approaches to Biohazard Analysis of Select Biodefense
    Vaccine Candidates. Applied Biosafety, Volume 13(4): 213-222.

  • Rao, V. 2007. Biohazard Analysis of Select Biodefense Vaccine
    Candidates: VEE and Francisella tularensis.
    Published in the Proceedings of CBMTS V.  2007, Pages: 119-131.

  •  Rao, V.R. 2000. “Long-term Toxic Effects: Emerging Challenges
    to Chemical Biological Risk Analysis and Medical Treatment
    Strategies” Proceedings of the CBMTS III. 

  •  Rao, V.R. 2000. Bioterrorism: A Profile of the Reported Incidence.
    ASA Newsletter. (October) 2000.

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Biomedical Research

  • Rao, V. 2013. Nano-bio architecture: Combining Chemistry and
    Biology in Nanotechnology. Book Chapter 17 (Part III): 
    In: Nanotechnology: Fundamental Research to Innovations.
    (Eds. O. Fesenko et al). Springer Publications
    ISBN 978-1-4614-7674-0. July 31.

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  • Rao, V. 2011. Systematic Biosafety and Risk Assessment of
    Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Products. Proceedings of the
    CBMTS Industry VII: World Congress on CBRN Threat and
    Terrorism. Pages 259-269.

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  • Rao, V 2007. Maximum Credible Event Analysis Methods--
    Tools and Applications in Biosecurity Programs. Proceedings of
    CBMTS V. December 2007. Pages: 293-299.

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  • Rao, V.R., Hinz, M., Roberts, B., and Fine, D. 2004. Environmental
    Hazard Assessment of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus
    Vaccine Candidate Strain V3526. Vaccine, 22(20), 2667-2673

Toxicology

  • Rao, V, Hinz, M., Roberts, B. and Fine, D. (2006) Toxicity Assessment
    of  Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Vaccine Candidate V3526.
    Vaccine. 24: 1710-1715.

 

  • Rao, V, Eilers, A., and C. Mancini. 2006. Select Agent Diagnostic Test
    Reporting Requirements—Exemptions and Implications to Biosecurity.
    Applied Biosafety, 11(4): 215-221.

 

  • Rao, V, Ghei, R., and Chambers, Y. 2005. Biofilms Research—
    Implications to Biosafety and Public Health. 2005. 
    Applied Biosafety, 10(2):83-90.

 

  • Sovcikova, E., M. Ursinyova, W. Ladislava, V. Rao, and
    M. Lustik. 1997. Effects on the Mental and Motor Abilities of Children
    Exposed to Low Levels of Lead in Bratislava.
    Toxic Subs. Mechanisms, 16:221-236.

 

  • Rao, V. R., S. Mintz, C. Hadden. and B. Cornaby. 1996. Distribution
    of Contaminants in Aquatic Organisms from East Fork Poplar Creek.
    Ecotoxicol. Environ. Safety, 33:44-54.

 

 

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