Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University, Texas, United States
Dr. Shreya Raghavan is an Assistant Professor and holds the Cain Faculty Fellowship II in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is also a Scholar in the Regional Excellence Center for Cancer at Texas A&M University. She has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Wake Forest University/Virginia Tech and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. At Texas A&M, the Raghavan lab engineers mechanically competent microenvironments to advance our understanding of human and veterinary health. Her approaches integrate mechanobiology, biomaterials and microenvironment engineering to ask questions that intersect the cancer stem cell/immune axis. Her work is funded by the NIH/NCI through an R37 MERIT award, the Department of Defense, and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. She is an award winning scientist, recognized by the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
In the BME classroom, Dr. Raghavan is recognized for her inclusive pedagogy by the Montague Scholars Award from Texas A&M University. Dr. Raghavan is an advocate for accessibility and equity, working actively towards dismantling systemic processes that hold academics behind in STEM.
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Panel Discussion: Women's Health and Biomedical Engineering
Thursday, October 24, 2024
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST
Engineering Innovations for Women’s Health: Networking for Challenges and Opportunities
Friday, October 25, 2024
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Saturday, October 26, 2024
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM EST