Umadevi Thirumurthi

Umadevi Thirumurthi (Uma) is a cancer biologist with over 6 years of experience focusing of Receptor Tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling in cancer and identifying biomarkers for treatment efficacy and resistance to therapy. Currently she is focused on building a database for variants in cancer. Uma has a B.Tech in Industrial Biotechnology from PSG College of Technology in India, a Masters in Molecular Biotechnology from Wayne State University and a PhD in Cancer Biology from UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. After her PhD, she worked for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA, where she worked on identifying novel pathways to target cancer stem cells to overcome resistance to SOC chemotherapy in triple negative breast cancers.