Contributions
Biography
Asia Mieczkowska is RENCI’s Associate Operations Officer. In this role, she leads both the Office of the Director Coordination Team (OOD-CT) and the Research Project Management Office (RPMO). Asia serves as an outreach liaison for RENCI groups and helps to coordinate activities across RENCI, UNC-CH, Duke, and NC State. She co-leads several large, multi-institutional and/or multi-disciplinary sponsor-funded research and coordination projects. Asia and her teams are responsible for creating comprehensive systems that streamline data collection, reporting, and administrative maintenance for the Office of the Director and RENCI staff. Additionally, Asia oversees the RENCI Service Program activities. Her previous professional life includes K-12 teaching and managing one of UNC-CH’s genetics laboratories focused on the research of transcription regulation of human and model organisms. She has supported the research in ENCODE and modENCODE projects funded by the National Institutes of Health. Asia holds an MA in literature from Warsaw University, Poland, and a post-graduate diploma in Human Resources Management from the School of Business and International Finances & International School of Managers in Warsaw, Poland.