Sumithra Sankararaman, PhD

Sumithra Sankararaman, PhD

Instructor

Address:
Division of Oncology
Mail Stop 8056-0029-11
Washington University
660 South Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110

Room 11311 Mid Campus Center (office)

Research Interests
  • Bioinformatic analyses for studying genomic and transcriptomic alterations present in lung cancers with a goal of developing targeted therapeutics
  • Computational development of methods to analyze single-cell RNA-seq data

Biosketch

Education

  • 2003-1997: PhD, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
  • 1997-1995: MSc (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
  • 1995: BSc (Physics),Fergusson College, Pune, India

Post-Graduate Training

  • 2017-2012: Post-doctoral Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 2008-2007: Centenary Post-doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  • 2006-2005: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  • 2005-2003: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

Academic Positions

  • present-2018: Instructor in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Honors & Awards

  • 2016-2012: Fellow in the NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) sponsored R25 educational program
  • 1997-1995: Merit scholarship for the top 5% in the Master of Sciences (Physics) program