Danielle Carnival

Carnival is from Troy, New York.^[1] She earned a B.S. in biochemistry from Boston College in 2005.^[2][1] She completed a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Georgetown University.^[2] Her dissertation was titled, Homeostatic control of AMPA receptor strength and subunit composition by Polo-like kinase 2.^[1] Daniel Pak was her doctoral advisor.^[1]

In 2010, Carnival began working at the White House for five years on the areas of science education, diversity in science, and technology.^[2][1][3] In 2016, she became the chief of staff to Greg Simon and senior policy director of the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot initiative.^[2][1] From 2017 to 2019, she worked as the vice president of the Biden Cancer Initiative at the Biden Foundation.^[1][2] In September 2019, she became the chief executive officer of the I Am ALS nonprofit.^[2][1] In 2021, U.S. president Joe Biden was named Carnival as a senior advisor in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) tasked with patient engagement and supporting a new iteration of the Moonshot program.^[2] She is the deputy assistant to the president for Cancer Moonshot and the OSTP deputy director for health outcomes.^[3]