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Dr. Rebecca Farkas is a Program Director in the Office of Translational Research. Dr. Farkas oversees the Medicinal Chemistry for Neurotherapeutics Program, which is part of the NIH Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network. She also provides leadership on translational research training initiatives and efforts to advance translational projects toward commercialization. Dr. Farkas received her Ph.D. in Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine and her B.A. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. She served as a science policy analyst in the NINDS Office of Science Policy and Planning for seven years before joining OTR.