Krishnashis Chatterjee , PhD

Krishnashis Chatterjee (Krish) is a postdoctoral research associate in the Counter Disease Engineering group. He has always been fascinated by the complexities and mysteries of human brain and his work in the lab is focused on interdisciplinary research, at the intersections of biology, physics, and engineering, aimed at designing techniques for studying the cells in the human brain and the interactions between them, under normal and pathological conditions.

Presently, Krish is leading projects focused on building genetically encoded nanotechnological tools (with applications in cancer therapy and super resolution imaging) and gene therapy for glial cells in brain with post baccalaureates and undergraduate students working under his supervision.

Before joining the lab, Krish did his PhD in Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech where he worked on bio-inspired theoretical and experimental microfluidics. During his initial postdoctoral appointment at Virginia Tech, he worked on projects involving tissue engineered models of human organs on chip and computational analyses of interstitial flow in glioblastoma in the human brain. Outside the lab, Krish enjoys reading non-fictions, playing or watching cricket and hanging out with his wife.