Disha Sharma

Disha Sharma is a second-year M.S. student in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics at Yale University, pursuing her thesis in Dr. Rodríguez Martínez’s lab in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of computational biology, genomics, and transcriptomics. She is interested in understanding how cellular behavior and gene expression change during differentiation, and how these changes relate to immune function and disease.

Disha earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois Chicago, with minors in Computer Science and Chemistry. Her previous experience includes clinical data analysis for endometriosis prediction and team-based smart contract development in blockchain-based frameworks for healthcare data sharing. Outside research, she is involved in science outreach and community building through OpenLabs and WISAY.