Dr. Gayathri Srinivasan

Throughout her two-decade career in academia, Dr. Gayathri Srinivasan has been driven by a deep sense of purpose and passion for building strategic alliances, technology commercialization, and the fostering and stewardship of impactful partnerships. A distinguished scientist, Dr. Srinivasan received her PhD in Microbiology from The Ohio State University in 2004, where she contributed to the discovery of the 22nd amino acid, Pyrrolysine (2002). She first came to MIT as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Tom Rajbhandary’s lab, where her research focused on understanding protein synthesis mechanism in Archaea.