PhD, Health Sciences | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
MS, Health Care Policy and Management | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
BDS, Dental Surgery | University of Mumbai, Mumbai, MS, India
Biosketch
Dr. Sudha Rajderkar completed her professional training in dentistry from Government Dental College and Hospital, Mumbai, a premier teaching institute in India. After spending a few years in private dental practice in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, she moved to the United States for advanced graduate education. Her time pursuing an accelerated master’s in health policy and management at Carnegie Mellon University allowed her to delve into evidence-based research methods in health sciences. Equipped with this refreshed vision and combining her deep fascination with basic science since her earliest years, Dr. Rajderkar joined the Oral Health Sciences PhD Program at the University of Michigan. Here, she spent several transformative years studying developmental biology and mammalian genetics, investigating mechanisms underlying common birth disorders tied to processes in early organogenesis. Moving to California as a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Dr. Rajderkar trained in mammalian genomics. Here, she studied the non-protein coding genome; particularly the functional relevance of the three-dimensional genome organization as well as gene regulatory sequences called enhancers and developmental phenotypes.
At the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Dr. Rajderkar’s research focuses on uncovering molecular mechanisms underlying complex etiologies of hard-to-diagnose dental and craniofacial diseases.
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