40 under 40 – 2017 winners

Filip Pirsl

Filip Pirsl
Washington DC area.

Research Scientist at National Institute of Health.

Filip is a research fellow at the National Institute of Health (NIH).  Filip has presented at a bio-medical conference, published research articles in an academic peer-review journal and has a number of additional co-authorships. In Filip’s field of biomedical research, he has collaborated with Croatian colleagues both in Washington DC and Croatia. He even won the Outstanding Poster at the 2015 NIH Postbac Poster day awarded, awarded to the best posters and judged by the graduate and postdoctoral students.

Above picture: Filip’s mom Sanya and Croatian Ambassador Josko Paro. Since 2012, Filip has been very active committee member of Hrvatska Ura (HURA) in Washington DC. He has been very involved in the planning and organization of the HURA group which sponsors ten plus events (speaker and vino) per year, and most are held at the Croatian Embassy in the nation’s capital.

Filip is also a key leader with fundraising activities and being a webmaster for their website. Filip is a  member of the Association of Croatian American Professionals (ACAP) and helped coordinate their first conference in Washington DC.  In addition to volunteering with HURA, Filip has been volunteering weekly at a local hospital for the last two years. Filip’s immediate family is from Rjeka and also has family in Dalmatia.

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