Faculty & Staff

Dr. Arpita Mukhopadhyay is a molecular physiologist and developmental biologist. She was awarded the prestigious DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Clinical and Public Health Intermediate fellowship in 2020. She was selected as a Young Investigator to attend the 9th Young Investigator Meeting in 2017.

She trained as a molecular developmental biologist as the first graduate student of the Vascular Biology Lab at Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, where she characterized a novel gene, asrij in mouse embryonic stem cells and during cardiovascular development. For her postdoctoral work at Randall T. Peterson’s lab in Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, she switched from mouse to the Zebrafish model system to be able to utilize the power of chemical biology in understanding cardiovascular development.

After a 3 years and 9 months long research break – owing to family responsibilities – she joined the Division of Nutrition at St. John’s Research Institute, Bangalore in 2012 and has established the Molecular Physiology Lab. She teaches molecular biology courses for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. She is especially active in mentoring and encouraging women students and trainees.