Dr. Sudha Rajderkar

Biography

Dr. Sudha Rajderkar completed her professional training in dentistry at the Government Dental College Hospital in Mumbai, a premier teaching institute in India. After spending years in private dental practice in Pune, Maharashtra, she moved to the United States for advanced graduate education. During this time, she pursued an accelerated master’s in health policy management at Carnegie Mellon University, which allowed her to delve into evidence-based research methods within the health sciences. Dr. Rajderkar then joined the Oral Health Sciences PhD Program at the University of Michigan, where she studied developmental biology and mammalian genetics, investigating the mechanisms underlying common birth disorders tied to processes of early organogenesis. Following her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, where she trained in mammalian genomics, focusing on the non-protein coding genome, particularly the functional relevance of three-dimensional genome organization and gene regulatory sequences called enhancers in developmental phenotypes. At the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Dr. Rajderkar’s research focuses on uncovering molecular mechanisms underlying complex etiologies of hard-to-diagnose dental craniofacial diseases.

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