Tanvi Banota

Tanvi is a fourth-year MD/PhD student in the Immunobiology Dept. She is conducting her thesis work on macrophage immunometabolic mechanisms of inflammation in diabetes in the lab of Kathryn Miller-Jensen in the Dept of Biomedical Engineering. She is originally from New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University in 2022 with a degree in Cell Biology and Neuroscience and a minor in Linguistics. During undergrad, she worked in the lab of Dr. Debra Laskin, investigating inflammation in models of mustard gas-induced pulmonary injury and characterizing lung inflammation in a model of NASH liver injury.