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Research and Development Architect

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
Commonwealth of Virginia Senate Confirmed Appointee: Research and Technology Investment Advisory Committee (RTIAC)
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.

Awardee, Special Achievement Award: SAIC Environmental Science/Health Group.
AAAS Fellowship, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1992.
EPA Science Forum. 2004. Health Communities and Ecosystem Panelist
Author/Editor, Two Volume Book titled, Selfless Action
Technical Excellence Awardee, SAIC Environmental Science and Health Sciences Group
Gold Medalist Ms. H.S. Hanumantha Rao Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Science for the best doctoral thesis
Postdoctoral Fellow, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
Rotary Scholar, Rotary Foundation Graduate Scholar (Rotary International.

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

Health Security

Global Health

Biosecurity

Emerging Infectious Diseases

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.

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.

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.

Rao. V. 2010. Integrated Regional Bioengagement Framework
to Combat Brucellosis. Journal of Macedonian Academy of
Science and Arts. Vol 31(1):191-207.

Rao, V. 2010. Stem Cell Technologies--Emerging Framework for
Hazard Assessment and Biosafety Considerations.
Journal of the American Biological Safety Association.
Vol. 15(1): 15-24.

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

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.

Rao, V. R., and A. Unger. 1995. A Novel Application of Competitive
Binding Model in Dioxin Risk Assessment.
Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 21:108-116.