President Joe Biden is expected to name Arati Prabhakar as his science adviser and nominate her as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
In 1993, then-President Bill Clinton picked a 34-year-old applied physicist named Arati Prabhakar to lead the National Institute of Standards and Technology . Two decades later, former President Barack Obama chose her to lead the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency . And as soon as this week, President Joe Biden is expected to name Prabhakar as his science adviser and nominate her as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy .
Her reputation as a team player is an asset as well, adds Washington, D.C., lobbyist Bart Gordon, a one-time chair of the House science committee as a Democratic representative from Tennessee. “She has all the background you could ask for, and she’s also such a nice person,” says Gordon, now with K&L Gates. “I’m absolutely delighted with the president’s choice.”
The adviser’s main job is to help carry out the president’s agenda for science, which Biden described in.
In implementing Biden’s to-do list, Prabhakar won’t be able to draw on a previous connection with the president, unlike Lander. A mathematician–turned–molecular biologist, Lander had worked with Biden when the vice president headed up the Cancer Moonshot during the Obama administration, and he co-chaired the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology under Obama.
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