Bhavi Vohra

Bhavi graduated with a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology (minor in Global Poverty and Practice) from UC Berkeley in 2013. She was involved with genetics and neural development research in undergrad and went on to work in industry on genome sequencing at Illumina then with biosimilars at Celltheon in California. Bhavi recently received a Masters in Medical Science at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2016 and is currently a second year medical student there. Bhavi is participating in UNC’s MSTAR program (Summer 2017) to pursue her interest in geriatrics, aging, and neurology. She is working with Henry Tseng on the post-translational modification of tau protein and its role in the pathogenic mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases.