Postdoctoral Research Associate
NIH/NCATS
Monika Rajput is an Intramural Research Training Award postdoctoral fellow in the Early Translation Branch within NCATS’ Division of Preclinical Innovation. I work in the Antiviral Program for Pandemics as a member of the Advanced Models and Cell Discovery Assay Group and NCATS’ 3-D Tissue Bioprinting Program and use 3-D bioprinting and microfluidics technology to develop 3-D in vitro viral-diseased tissue models for drug discovery and screening for personalized medicine.
Before joining NCATS in 2021, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. I developed a 3-D hydrogel-based system for bone tissue engineering using 3-D printing technology. Earned a doctorate in biomaterials and tissue engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, where I studied the influence of biophysical and biochemical cues on differential behavior of healthy and diseased primary and secondary cells to develop a smart therapeutic patch