Smita Asare

Smita Asare has a diverse work experience in various healthcare and research settings. Smita started their career as a Research Analyst at the University of Missouri Health Care in 1998. Smita then worked as a Programmer Analyst II at the Immune Tolerance Network in 2004. Later, they joined the George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health, where they served as a Senior Research Assistant and a Research Associate at the Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet Coordinating Center. In 2008, they joined UCSF Medical Center as the Team Leader - Tolerance Research Project Manager and later became the Mechanistic Operations Manager in the Biomarker & Discovery Research division of the Immune Tolerance Network. From 2013 to 2015, they worked as a Data Analyst at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Bioinformatics department of the Immune Tolerance Network. Currently, they hold the position of Executive Director for I-SPY Trials Operations at Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative, starting from 2016.

Smita Asare completed their Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular & Integrative Physiology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the years 1993 to 1997. Later on, they pursued another Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri College of Engineering between 2000 and 2003.