Vidya Jonnalagadda, PhD

Executive Director, Data Sciences

Vidya Jonnalagadda has over 40 years of experience as a biology researcher and teacher. She obtained her PhD from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and has worked on research projects at Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore), Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia), Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (Hyderabad), Osmania University (Hyderabad) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA). She transitioned from research to teaching about 20 years ago, and has taught various topics in genetics, molecular biology, virology, and immunology at the undergraduate and post-graduate level in India.