Biography

I studied medicine at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College and trained as a doctor at the Sassoon General Hospitals in Pune, India. I hold an MPH degree in epidemiology from the University of Texas at Houston in the US, where I pursued graduate research training in genomics at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. I received a PhD in genetic epidemiology from the University of Cambridge in the UK in 2017, as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and as the first Homerton College Junior Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine. I was subsequently awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship by UK Research and Innovation in 2020, enabling me to establish a research group at the University of Bristol that uses inherited genetic variation to investigate the causes and correlates of tumour genomic features with the aim of informing the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common cancers.