Anagha Krishnan

Anagha graduated with Highest Honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Stamps President's Scholar in May 2019. As an undergraduate supervised by Dr. Krishnendu Roy, she developed three-dimensional microfluidic models to study the interactions between fibroblasts and stromal cells during lymphatic vasculature formation. She has also worked on projects at the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Dallas; she developed phononic crystals for improved ultrasound imaging and ran a computational analysis of migraine drug targets, respectively. Her research has been recognized by several awards, including the MARS Generation 24 Under 24 Award, the Alfred H. Gibeling Research Award, and the Goldwater Scholarship (which she received as a high school senior at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science). Following graduation, Anagha worked at Glympse Bio, where she assisted with assay development and animal testing for active protease sensors that noninvasively monitored patient response to immunotherapy.

In addition to her research interests, Anagha is extremely passionate about STEM education and outreach; as an undergraduate, she co-founded an organization that used computer science education to improve young womens’ self-efficacy. To further her interests in education, Anagha was awarded a Fulbright Grant in 2019 and served as a visiting lecturer at Uva Wellassa University in Sri Lanka.

For her thesis work, Anagha will be studying how intratumor heterogeneity affects immune response in a variety of cancers. She intends to attend medical school after the completion of her doctorate.