Pankaj Qasba

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Dr. Qasba is a program director at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes in the division of blood diseases and resources. He heads the NHLBI systems biology program in addition to managing portfolios in Hemoglobinopathies & Genetics, Bone Marrow Failure syndromes and other aplastic anemia’s. He also manages trans-NHLBI programs on behalf of the blood division related to Genomics, Proteomics, TOPMed, Systems Biology and Gene therapy. Member of various NHLBI-NIH steering committees, invited chair, speaker and reviewer for many NHLBI, national and international meetings and conferences. Dr. Qasba received his PhD in Cell Biology from State University of New York, NY, and pursued his postdoctoral training as a Howard Hughes Fellow at Johns Hopkins University.