Ashok Srinivasan

An innovative and patient-oriented scientist, Ashok Srinivasan has an extensive history of scientific, clinical, and leadership achievement.
?As the Translational Research Scientist for NSABP Foundation/NRG Pittsburgh, Ashok has dedicated the past seven years to translating scientific advances to clinical trials, supporting new technology and therapeutic advancements for breast and colorectal cancer.
In this role, Ashok has consulted as a molecular genetics / genomics expert in developing scientific rationales for 10+ clinical trials and educated clinical trialists on emerging trends and best practices in oncology research.
He has also been instrumental in generating scientific documentation for intellectual property and patent application filings.
Ashok spearheaded the implementation and management of one of the first Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) facilities in Pittsburgh.
As the NGS Facility Director at the University of Pittsburgh and as a Translational Scientist at the NSABP, he guided a team of technicians and postdoctoral fellows in the genomic analysis of genetic disease.
His research focused on NGS based analysis, genome and transcriptome sequencing, mutational analyses, the identification of disease genes (zebrafish, mouse, human), ribosome profiling, and metagenomics.
He was also instrumental in viral threat research investigating viral recombination and virus evolution for Project Prophecy.
Ashok earned a Ph.D.
in Molecular Biology from the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Madras.
He was an Inlaks Scholar in Genetics at the University of Cambridge, England.
He has held postdoctoral research fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the Cardiovascular Research Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he led a team that completed the zebrafish genetic map.? ? ng ASD, profoundly impacting human health.