Srividya Swaminathan

Srividya Swaminathan, Ph.D., is a scholar of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and a special fellow of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) with 10 years of research experience in hematology-oncology. She obtained her B Tech. degree from the Center for Biotechnology, Anna University in India, followed by a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She carried out her doctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. Markus Müschen, M.D., Ph.D., where she studied the cell-autonomous processes driving both normal B-lymphopoiesis, and precursor-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Subsequently, she trained as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California San Francisco (Mentor: Dr. Müschen), and Stanford University (Mentor: Dean Felsher, M.D., Ph.D.).

Prior to joining City of Hope, Dr. Swaminathan served as an instructor in Dr. Felsher’s laboratory in the Department of Oncology at Stanford University, where she delineated the immunobiology of MYC oncogene-driven lymphomas. Dr. Swaminathan has authored a total of eight peer-reviewed publications, with lead author research articles in Nature Medicine (2013), Nature Immunology (2015) and JITC (2018). The research focus of Dr. Swaminathan and her laboratory in the Department of Systems Biology will be identifying noncytotoxic and targeted immunotherapies for treating oncogene-addicted B cell malignancies driven by MYC, MLL and ABL rearrangements; by comparing B cell-intrinsic processes, and the spatial and temporal distribution of the immune system during normal B-lymphopoiesis versus B cell lymphomagenesis. Her laboratory at City of Hope is currently funded by a five-year start-up package, the ASH Scholar Award and the LLS Special Fellow Award.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) Bangalore University
• National Eligibility Certification for Research and Lectureship Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, UGC, India
• B.Sc. (Hon.) Delhi University (1986 — 1989)

Companies

• Assistant Director Jubilant Biosys Limited (2019)
• Senior Research Scientist II AMRI (Albany Molecular Research Inc.) (2014 — 2017)
• Senior Research Scientist I AMRI (Albany Molecular Research Inc.) (2010 — 2014)
• Senior Research Scientist and Principal Investigator & Assistant Professor (Joint) Oncology Research Institute, NUS & Department of Physiology, YLL SoM, NUS (2004 — 2009)
• Lecturer and Supervisor; Graduate and Undergraduate programs National University of Singapore (2004 — 2009)
• Post-Doctoral Research Scientist & Fogarty Fellow National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH (1999 — 2004)
• Trainer and Research Mentor NCI-Frederick/NIH (1999 — 2004)
• Post-Doctoral Researcher NII - National Institute of Immunology (1998 — 1999)
• ResearchTraining and mentoring Undergraduate Student Attachments NII - National Institute of Immunology (1992 — 1999)

Skills

• Biotechnology