Faculty
Oncology Division
Sumithra Sankararaman, PhD
Instructor
Department of Medicine
Oncology Division
Medical Oncology
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
Contact
- 314-362-0371 (office)
- sumithra@wustl.edu
- Division of Oncology
Mail Stop 8056-0029-11
Washington University
660 South Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110 - Room 11311 Mid Campus Center (office)
Biosketch
| Education | |
|---|---|
| 1995 | BSc (Physics),Fergusson College, Pune, India |
| 1995-1997 | MSc (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India |
| 1997-2003 | PhD, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India |
| Post-graduate Training | |
| 2003-2005 | Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL |
| 2005-2006 | Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
| 2007-2008 | Centenary Post-doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India |
| 2012-2017 | Post-doctoral Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| Academic Positions | |
| 2018-present | Instructor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| Honors and Awards | |
| 1995-1997 | Merit scholarship for the top 5% in the Master of Sciences (Physics) program |
| 2012-2016 | Fellow in the NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) sponsored R25 educational program |
