Speaker Bios<\/strong><\/h2>\nShilpy Dixit:<\/strong> Dr. Dixit is Program Director for Prevention and Sleep Health in the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR), a branch in the Division of Lung Diseases at NHLBI. Dr. Dixit earned her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University \u00a0for her research on the detrimental effect of vitamin C deficiency in aging and neurodegeneration. Her interest in the comorbidities that contribute to neurodegeneration led her to a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where her research focus was seizure susceptibility associated with neurodegenerative injury and disease. The AAAS Science & Technology Fellowship brought Dr. Dixit to NCSDR where she strives to elevate the critical relationship between sleep and circadian rhythms biology and health outcomes through coordination\u00a0 across NIH and other Federal agencies, academia and public stakeholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This month, the BRET Career Development ASPIRE Program is joining with the Vanderbilt and VUMC Offices of Federal Relations and other campus partners to bring you two virtual panels about career paths in science policy. The first virtual panel features science policy professionals who work for advocacy organizations, Congress, and government relations firms. The second…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":15774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[28,19,18],"class_list":["post-15765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upcoming-bret-office-of-career-development-events","tag-career-options-consulting","tag-career-options-government-administration","tag-career-options-science-policy"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/PhDCS-2021-2020-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15925,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions\/15925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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