Talented Twelve Award 2016 Renã A. S. Robinson is an associate professor and the Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor's Faculty Fellow in the department of chemistry at the Vanderbilt University, where she is the principal investigator of the RASR Laboratory.
[3][2] Her research was important in the laboratory's discovery that free radical oxidative stress affects Alzheimer's brains.
[15][16] Robinson has developed a novel multiplexing strategy for quantitative proteomics called "combined precursor isotopic labeling and isobaric tagging" or cPILOT, that can examine 12 or 16 samples at a time.
[1] Dr. Robinson is the current president of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.
[19] In addition to her dedication to improving human health through scientific research, Robinson also focuses on providing professional and scientific development activities for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researches as well as engaging in community outreach activities for K through 12 students.
Robinson was the Associate Director of Outreach, Recruitment and Education at the University of Pittsburgh, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center[20] and has continued to provide mentorship within and outside her academic lab at Vanderbilt.
[21][22] As a Vanderbilt Global Voices Fellow,[23] Robinson continues to build public awareness for her body of work related to racial and ethnic disparities in Alzheimer's disease as well as risk factors impacting the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 in communities of color in the USA.