About

Dr. Desai earned her undergraduate and doctoral degrees in biomedical sciences at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. Her doctoral dissertation focused on investigating the functional analysis of α-catenin in cadherin-mediated cell adhesion during Drosophila development. Prior to joining Drexel, Dr. Desai was a senior research fellow at Joslin Diabetes Center and postdoctoral fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, where she focused on investigating the mechanisms underlying initiation and progression of precursor lesions in pancreatic cancer.

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Honors

NIH-NCI Transition Career Development Award
National Institutes of Health (United States, Bethesda) - NIH, 2023

Organizational Affiliations

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Drexel University

Education

Molecular Biology and Genetics
BSc (Honors), University of Toronto (Canada, Toronto)
University of Toronto (Canada, Toronto)
PhD
Harvard Medical School (United States, Boston) - HMS
Postdoctoral Fellow