Bio
Dr.Abantika Ganguly is a researcher specializing in molecular biology and bioinformatics. She holds a Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry and earned her PhD in Molecular Biophysics from Indian Institute of Science, India where she explored the global transcriptional regulation governing switch ON/OFF of genes under various stress stimuli. Dr Ganguly went onto do her postdoctoral studies at The Scripps Research Institute, where she was further involved in using NGS based analysis to understand the role of different genes in conferring resistance/susceptibility against common oncogenic drugs. She has worked as scientific advisor to a genomic start-up in developing custom NGS pipelines based on client needs. She has also Currently she works with Avnesh Thakor to develop stem cell based cell therapies based on disease-etiology related to Inflammatory Diseases with no approved FDA biologics using multi-omics and translational approaches.
