About me

I started in chemistry, synthesizing peptides at IISER Bhopal, curious about how small molecules could change biology.

Then I moved to the University of Chicago for my PhD, and the questions got bigger. I worked on improving vaccines and cancer therapeutics, trying to understand how the immune system learns. I designed adjuvants and drug delivery systems, and somewhere along the way, I stopped thinking only like a chemist and started thinking like a biologist.

Then at Harvard Medical School, the questions changed again. A postdoc in neuroimmunology focusing on the blood-brain barrier. Learning how the brain and immune system talk to each other.

Three fields. One long lesson in how scientific language works.

How jargon gets built and how easy it is to lose a reader by the second paragraph. How the same word can mean one thing to a chemist and something almost unrecognizable to a neuroscientist.

What I learned across those three fields was not just biology. It was about noticing the gap between the page and the person reading it. That's what shapes how I write now.