Dr. Shruthy Suresh Aggarwal

Dr. Shruthy Suresh Aggarwal was born and raised in Chennai for 21 years, and received a B.Tech in Biotechnology from IIT Madras in 2013. A summer of exciting research at Michigan State University as a Khorana Scholar motivated her to pursue graduate studies in the US. Shruthy recently obtained her Ph.D in Cancer Biology from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center as an HHMI Med to Grad fellow in 2019. Her graduate work in Dr. Kathryn O’Donnell’s laboratory has focused on using CRISPR based screening to identify regulators of the PD-L1 immune checkpoint in lung cancer. Her Thesis work contributed to the lab being awarded several grants: Welch Foundation Grant 2018, Friends of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Award in Cancer Research 2017 and NCI SPORE in Lung Cancer Career Development Award 2016.Currently, she is working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology at the UT Southwestern Medical Center.