Ourania Kosti

Affiliation

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Biography

Ourania (Rania) Kosti is a senior program officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Her work at the Academies focuses on radiation health effects and she is the principal investigator for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation Program that supports studies of the atomic bombing survivors in Japan. Prior to her current appointment, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University. She received a B.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Surrey, an M.Sc. in molecular medicine from University College London, and a Ph.D. in molecular endocrinology from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.