Sharmistha Sarkar, PhD

Sharmistha Sarkar is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. She received her doctoral degree from University of Utah during which she studied the role of retinoic acid signaling in colon cancer. She received two Masters degrees in Biotechnology and Biochemistry from Indian Institute of technology and Calcutta University in India. Her current research focuses on studying the interplay between chromatin remodeling and cellular pathways that play a role in ovarian tumorigenesis.