Sunitha Nagrath
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan
United States of America
Biography
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute PhD ME ’04 MS Nuclear Engineering ’00 Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupathi, India B.Tech Chemical Engineering ’92 Positions Held at U-M Associate Professor (2016-) Assistant Professor (2010-2016) Positions Held Elsewhere Junior Faculty, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital Surgery, (2008-2010) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Engineering in Medicine, (2004-2008)
Research Interest
Dr. Nagrath’s research goal is to bring the next generation of engineering tools to patient care, especially in cancer. Her major focus of research is to develop advanced MEMS tools for understanding cell trafficking in cancer through isolation, characterization and study of circulating cell in peripheral blood of cancer patients. Dr. Nagrath’s research on isolating and studying rare cells from cancer patients. She would like to focus her lab’s efforts on designing and developing smart chips using microfluidics and nanotechnology to make impact in medicine and life sciences. Her goal is to create cutting edge engineering solutions for clinical medicine with novel translational biomedical research tools. She strongly believes in building a team where engineers, biologists and clinicians will come together to solve the complex problems with better approaches.
Publications
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Sequist L, Nagrath S, Maheswaran S, Haber DA, Toner M, Lynch TJ “The CTC-chip: An exciting new tool to detect circulating tumor cells in lung cancer patientsâ€, The Journal of Thoracic Oncology 3(4), 281-283 (2009).
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Maheswaran S*, Sequist L*, Nagrath S*, Ulkus L, Brannigan B, Collura C, Inserra B, Diederichs S, Iafrate J, Digumarthy S, Muzikansky A, Irimia D, Settleman J, Tompkins R, Lynch T, Toner M, Haber DA, “Detecting Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor gene mutations in circulating tumor cells from patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancerâ€, New England Journal of Medicine 359(4), 366-77 (2008).
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Nagrath S*, Sequist L*, Maheswaran S, Bell DW, Irimia D, Ulkus L, Smith MR, Kwak EL, Digumarthy S, Muzikansky A, Ryan P, Balis UJ, Tompkins RG, Haber DA, Toner M, “Microchip-based Isolation of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells in Cancer Patientsâ€, Nature 450, 1235–1239 (2007).
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Zhuo ZJ, Nagrath S, Microfluidics and cancer: are we there yet?, Invited review, Biomedical Microdevices, Jan, 2013.
