Pujan Desai

Pujan_2025

Position Title
Graduate Student Researcher

  • Biomedical Engineering
GBSF 2619
Bio

Project: Decoding EV heterogeneity through the combination of nanoscale imaging (cryo-EM, super-resolution microscopy) and custom machine learning tools to rapidly classify EVs and find disease biomarkers
Goal: Translate these advanced imaging insights into scalable, clinically viable EV-based diagnostics and therapeutics.
Hobbies: Distance running, cat herding, reading all the sci-fi, DnD and other co-op games with wife and friends

Education and Degree(s)
  • Bachelor of Science - BS, Biomedical Engineering - Johns Hopkins University
  • Master’s in Translational Medicine - MS - UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Honors and Awards
  • Comparative Lung Biology and Medicine T32 Fellow
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Extracellular vesicles
  • Machine learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM)
  • Super-resolution microscopy
  • Clinical/Commercial Translation