Nanditha Anandakrishnan, PhD

Nanditha Anandakrishnan, PhD (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor (Research) of Medicine in Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  Dr. Anandakrishnan received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2019 where she focused on the development of vascularized tissue engineered models. Following that, she joined Dr. Evren Azeloglu’s (Associate Professor, Medicine-Nephrology) as a Postdoctoral fellow in September 2019. In the last 5 years, Dr. Anandakrishnan has been leading the establishment of a workflow for the generation of iPSC derived podocytes and kidney organoids for microfluidic and disease modeling applications. She has co-authored 6 papers during the last 5 years in addition to two preprints. As a Research Faculty, Dr. Anandakrishnan will be focusing on investigating the podocyte signaling landscape in a sex-specific context by employing engineered platforms and iPSC derived podocytes.