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BIOGRAPHY

Olga A. Cabello, Ph.D.
Life Sciences Specialist and AAAS Science Diplomacy Fellow

Dr. Olga A. Cabello is currently an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Diplomacy Fellow in the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State.

Dr. Cabello serves as the Life Sciences Specialist in the Office. Her advisory portfolio includes all matters related to basic biomedical and biological sciences as well as global healthcare issues and policies. In this capacity Dr. Cabello maintains a extensive network of scientific consultants spanning disciplines as diverse as biotechnology, biodefense, global healthcare, human genetics, microbiology, epidemiology, biomedical engineering and biodiversity. Dr. Cabello also has regular communication with other officials responsible for biological sciences issues within the Department of State, and with officials responsible for international programs at technical US government agencies, including the NIH, NSF and NOA, and the Department of Defense.

Dr. Cabello main policy interest is engaging the talent and intellectual power of the US scientific academic community as a core resource in US diplomacy. She is particularly interested in increasing science and technology capacity in developing countries as a central pillar of long term sustainability. She serves as the principal liaison between the Office of the Science Adviser and the US academic community. In collaboration with USAID, she was responsible for the organization of the Higher Education Summit for Global Development that convened 184 university presidents from the US and 68 other countries. In collaboration with the French Presidency of the European Union and the European Commission in the US, she is one of the organizers of the Workshop on Internationalization of Research and Graduate Education. Dr. Cabello currently represents the Science Adviser of Department of State on the Subcommittees on Education and on Human Factors for Homeland and National Security of the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council.

Dr. Cabello holds appointments as Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Quillen College of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biological Sciences East Tennessee State University where she is also a Faculty Member of the Institute for Quantitative Biology. In addition, she is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology and a Faculty Member of the Duncan Cancer Center at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.

Olga Cabello received her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, and a doctoral degree in Molecular Biophysics from Baylor College of Medicine. After graduation, she continued her formal scientific training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and subsequently in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor. She was then appointed to the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, where she led an independent research program since 1998. In 2005, Dr. Cabello was appointed Associate Professor at the Quillen College of Medicine with primary teaching responsibility in field of human and molecular genetics.

Dr. Cabello has extensively collaborated with other scientists in academia and private industry on the development and evaluation of high throughput genetic engineering technologies to facilitate analysis of the molecular mechanisms of some of the most common birth defects in children. She has been recipient principal investigator of three grants from the National Institutes of Health and a research award from the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. She has trained many young scientists including honors high school students doing summer projects, graduate students working on their Ph.D. dissertations and postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Cabello has served on four Special Emphasis Review Panels for the National Institutes of Health evaluating applicants for pre- and postdoctoral fellowships. Her scientific research has been published in 14 peer-reviewed publications and has yielded nearly fifty scientific communications and invited presentations to national and international conferences.

Throughout her career, Olga Cabello has received numerous awards, including the Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the Procter & Gamble Professional Opportunity Award for Meritorious Research from The American Physiological Society, the Pfizer Award for Scientific Excellence from the Minority Affairs Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology, The Annenberg Foundation Host Faculty Award on three consecutive years, The Abbott Laboratories Award for Innovative Research, and the Minority Faculty Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Olga is a native of Mexico and a fluent Spanish speaker. She is married and has two daughters. The family maintains homes in the Washington, DC area and in North East Tennessee.

Contact Information:

Olga A. Cabello, Ph.D.
Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
1990 K Street NW Suite 410
Washington, DC 20006

Phone: 202-663-3244
e-mail: CabelloOA@State.gov