diff --git a/2023-11-10-rachel-lombardi-feature.md b/2023-11-10-rachel-lombardi-feature.md index e1fe2a9..1008683 100644 --- a/2023-11-10-rachel-lombardi-feature.md +++ b/2023-11-10-rachel-lombardi-feature.md @@ -90,15 +90,15 @@ I want to help advance research in whatever way that I can. I feel inspired by r **Can you tell me about your involvement with the NIAID?** + + +The [OSG] has many collaborations with different government, academic, and nonprofit entities, one of them being the [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] (NIAID). As a part of that collaboration, I was able to go to Uganda, which was an incredible experience for so many reasons. +
Rachel Lombardi (left) and OSG Executive Director Frank Wuerthwein (right) in Uganda
Rachel Lombardi (left) and OSG Executive Director Frank Wuerthwein (right) in Uganda
-The [OSG] has many collaborations with different government, academic, and nonprofit entities, one of them being the [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] (NIAID). As a part of that collaboration, I was able to go to Uganda, which was an incredible experience for so many reasons. - - - My background is in biology, and an aspect of the government focuses on biology and sequencing analysis. I went to Uganda to lead a workshop for researchers who were part of the ACE program, which is the African Centers of Excellence, specifically in bioinformatics. I worked with the researchers there to show them how their research could benefit from using OSG resources. It was just incredible — there are so many things that are hard to grasp until you're there. They have a high-performance computing system over there that, in theory, they can use, but they don't have stable power. I would be sitting in a meeting with important leaders from universities and different U.S. computing centers, and the power shuts off. Things like that are hard to comprehend until you're there, and I grew so much from that experience. I began to understand what their challenges were and what we could do to address them.