Taraswi Banerjee, Ph.D.

Deputy Research Integrity Officer

B.Sc., University of Calcutta, India, 2002

M.Sc., University of Calcutta, India, 2004

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, India, 2010

Building 1, Room 154
1 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20814

301-402-4265

taraswi.banerjee@nih.gov

Dr. Taraswi Banerjee is the Deputy Research Integrity Officer of the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP). In this role, she works with the Director of Research Integrity to oversee the resolution of research misconduct allegations and authorship disputes related to intramural research and to promote and maintain the overall research integrity of the intramural research program at NIH. As the executive secretary of the NIH Committee on Scientific Conduct and Ethics, Taraswi is involved in developing policies and guidelines related to responsible conduct of research (RCR) within the IRP. Taraswi also teaches RCR to IRP researchers and liaisons with the 27 NIH Centers and Institutes to monitor compliance for mandatory RCR trainings for NIH IRP researchers.

Taraswi earned her doctorate in cancer biology from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India. She then completed a short pre-doctoral training at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois studying transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in prostate tumorigenesis. Taraswi completed a successful NIH-funded postdoctoral training from 2012-2017 at the National Institute on Aging (NIH/NIA) studying the role of the DNA unwinding enzymes, RecQ Helicases in DNA damage in different disease models with accelerated aging and cancer. Taraswi served as a contractor Scientist Investigator in the Division of Investigative Oversight in the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI) from 2017-2019 during which she provided oversight over research misconduct cases involving biomedical research that were funded by grants from the U.S. Public Health Services (PHS). Taraswi served as the Assistant to the NIH Agency Intramural Research Integrity Officer from 2019-2024.