Rajini Rao | |
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| Born | India |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Mount Carmel College University of Rochester |
| Known for | Physiology of cation transport in health and disease |
| Awards | 2009 Hans Prochaska Memorial Lecturer, 2009 Johns Hopkins Professors Award for Excellence in Teaching in Preclinical Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physiology, cation transport |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
Rajini Rao is an American physiologist who is a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Rao is also the director of the Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and is the principal investigator of the Rao Lab. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[1] Rao discovers novel ion channels and explores their roles in human health and disease. The Rao Lab identified the oncogenic role of SPCA2 in breast cancer through an aberrant method of signalling to calcium channels.