Gayathri Swaminathan

Occupation: Researcher at SENS Foundation Research Center
Biography: Gayathri joined the SENS Foundation Research Center in March 2011 and works towards advancing the MitoSENS project. She has a Ph.D. degree in Microbiology and Immunology from Temple University, Philadelphia and completed her postdoctoral training at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Stanford University, California. The major focus of her doctoral and post-doctoral research work was on elucidation of signaling pathways relevant to cell growth and cancer development in an effort to identify causative factors and potential therapeutic modalities to treat cancer. She has published her work in well-reputed, peer-reviewed international journals. At SENS RC, her research efforts are focused on showing ‘allotopic’ expression of mitochondrial proteins involved in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), their incorporation in the relevant OXPHOS complexes and OXPHOS function rescue studies using patient cell lines. She is enthusiastic about the broad, translational impact of the research programs supported by SENS foundation and hopes to make positive contributions towards the development of novel, targeted, regenerative therapies for age-related disease pathologies including cancer.