Sunitha Nagrath's Biography

Sunitha Nagrath, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Dr. Sunitha Nagrath (Fellow of AIMBE) is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in 2004 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in Mechanical Engineering. She did her postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Dr. Nagrath is the leading scientist who designed the MEMS based technology, “CTC-Chip” for the sensitive isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the blood of cancer patients. She joined University of Michigan in 2010, where she established her laboratory focused on engineering innovative microfluidic devices and nanomaterials for implementing personalized precision medicine via liquid biopsy. Dr. Nagrath’s major focus of research is on understanding cancer progression and metastasis through isolation, characterization and study of circulating cells and extracellular vesicles. Dr. Nagrath is the co-founder and the board member of labyrinth Biotech., a biotechnology company commercializing some of the technologies that are developed in her lab.