Presenter

Nastaran (Nas) Zahir, PhD, is Chief of the Cancer Training Branch in the Center for Cancer Training where her role is to oversee the extramural research fellowships, training, and career development programs funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Prior to joining the Center for Cancer Training in 2021, Dr. Zahir served as Associate Director at the NCI Division of Cancer Biology where she coordinated programs that integrate physical sciences perspectives in cancer research, fostered collaborative team science, supported education, outreach, and advocacy activities, and promoted resources for data sharing and biospecimen standards. Dr. Zahir joined the NCI in 2009 as a Program Director in the Office of Physical Sciences-Oncology. She has conducted research in tissue engineering at the NIH, breast cancer mechanobiology at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Bioengineering, and plasma physics and radiation biology at the University of California, Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering.