Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D., Elected to Advisory Board of Russian National Research Center

Dr. Rakesh Kumar posing for a portrait

Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D., professor and Catharine Birch & William McCormick Endowed Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been elected as the foreign member of the Advisory Board of the Russian National Research Center’s Institute of Immunology in Moscow. Kumar has also been elected as a member of the Editorial Board of the Russian Academy of Sciences journal Physiology and Pathology of Immune System.

“I am honored to have been elected,” Kumar said. “In this role, I look forward to increasing cooperation between the George Washington University and the Russian Academy of Sciences.”

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