LRP PO Spotlight Series

LRP Program Officer
Shilpy Dixit, Ph.D.

NIH Institute/Center
National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Biography
Dr. Dixit is Program Director for Prevention and Sleep Health in the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR) at NHLBI, which supports research focused on the relationship between healthy sleep and physical health and well-being, and chronic disease prevention. Dr. Dixit earned her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University for 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 biology research and health outcomes through coordination across NIH and other Federal agencies, academia and public stakeholders.

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