Sunitha Nagrath

Professor

Dr. Sunitha Nagrath is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Michigan. Dr. Nagrath did her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupathi, India. She received her Ph.D. in 2004 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in Mechanical Engineering. She did her postdoctoral work (2004-2008) at Harvard Medical/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. She later worked as an instructor/junior faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Nagrath is the leading scientist who designed the MEMS based technology, “CTC-Chip” for the sensitive isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the blood of cancer patients. Her work challenged and changed the then-current paradigm of CTC isolation and concurrently increased the relevance of CTCs in cancer research, thereby accelerating the pace of CTC research. She joined University of Michigan in 2010, where she established her laboratory focused on engineering innovative microfluidic devices and nanomaterials for implementing personalized precision medicine via liquid biopsy. Dr. Nagrath’s major focus of research is on understanding cell trafficking in cancer through isolation, characterization and study of circulating cells and exosomes in peripheral blood of cancer patients. Dr. Nagrath co-directs the Single Cell Analysis Core of Rogel Cancer Center at UMICH, where Dr. Nagrath and her laboratory provides innovative microfluidic tools for handling cells at single cell resolution.

Talks About
#microfluidics #biomems #circulatingtumorcells #extracellularvesicles

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica