Dr. Harsha Karur Rajasimha is a genomics scientist, social entrepreneur and co-founder of the Organization for Rare Diseases India (ORDI). At ORDI, Dr. Rajasimha is responsible for the overall vision, research, strategy, formation of advisory boards, international collaborations, web content development and grant proposals. Dr. Rajasimha is a life sciences solutions consultant for Dell and co-directs the center for metabolic and rare diseases at George Mason University where he leads research in rare disease database integration, policy frameworks, best practices guidelines for diagnosis and screening of rare diseases in USA and how they can be adapted to countries such as India. He is also founder president of Jeeva informatics solutions, a genomics bigdata analytics company based in Maryland, USA and serves on the executive advisory board of a number of companies. Dr. Rajasimha has over 15 years work experience and 15 peer-reviewed publications in interdisciplinary projects involving genomics, BigData integration and analysis at National Institutes of Health, US FDA, Strand Genomics Inc. and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. His research work has focused on the genomics and systems biology of diseases including rare genetic diseases, Cancer, Infectious, mitochondrial, and retinal degenerative diseases. Harsha earned his MS in Computer Science (2004) and PhD in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Virginia Tech (2007). Dr. Harsha Karur Rajasimha is a genomics scientist, social entrepreneur and co-founder of the Organization for Rare Diseases India (ORDI). At ORDI, Dr. Rajasimha is responsible for the overall vision, research, strategy, formation of advisory boards, international collaborations, web content development and grant proposals. Dr. Rajasimha is a life sciences solutions consultant for Dell and co-directs the center for metabolic and rare diseases at George Mason University where he leads research in rare disease database integration, policy frameworks, best practices guidelines for diagnosis and screening of rare diseases in USA and how they can be adapted to countries such as India. He is also founder president of Jeeva informatics solutions, a genomics bigdata analytics company based in Maryland, USA and serves on the executive advisory board of a number of companies. Dr. Rajasimha has over 15 years work experience and 15 peer-reviewed publications in interdisciplinary projects involving genomics, BigData integration and analysis at National Institutes of Health, US FDA, Strand Genomics Inc. and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. His research work has focused on the genomics and systems biology of diseases including rare genetic diseases, Cancer, Infectious, mitochondrial, and retinal degenerative diseases. Harsha earned his MS in Computer Science (2004) and PhD in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Virginia Tech (2007).

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