Dr. Sanchita Roy received her bachelor degree with honors in Physiology (human physiology) and master degree in Physiology (with Biochemistry) from University of Calcutta, India. She received PhD degree from Jadavpur University, India in Life science and Biotechnology, research area focused on environmental microbiology. After successful postdoctoral training at Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA she is currently full time research faculty (Research Associate) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 2016.

Dr. Sanchita Roy research interest include Microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, HIV, DNA damage repair, Genome editing CRISPR, cancer biology, biochemistry.