Shailaja Seetharaman

Shailaja Seetharaman recently joined the Mechanobiology Institute, with a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology, NUS School of Medicine. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Institut Pasteur, Paris, and her Master’s in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences from King’s College London. Her work has been supported by the American Heart Association, Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science, and Yen Postdoctoral Fellowships, and the Marie Curie and the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale PhD Fellowships. Her research will decode the mechano-chemical feedback mechanisms that govern vascular function in health and disease. In particular, her interests lie in understanding how endothelial cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, and how such mechanosensing goes awry to drive cardio- and cerebro-vascular dysfunction in aging and aging-related diseases.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
• Principal Investigator, Mechanobiology Institute, NUS

• Cardio- and cerebro-vascular biology – endothelial dysfunction in disease
• Mechanobiology and biophysics of tissue adaptation
• AI/ML for cell and tissue mechanobiology