Dr. Seema Agarwal

Georgetown University Medical Center, Center for Cell Reprogramming, Washington, DC

Seema has received a PhD in Organic Chemistry from University of Allahabad, India and a second PhD in Biochemistry on chromatin structure from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Postdoctoral work was done in the labs of Dr. Michael Snyder and Dr. Shirleen Roeder at Yale University where she worked on classical genetics and genomics. Seema had a brief stay in a biotech company, where she led a group on cancer drug target discovery. She joined Yale University as a Research Faculty in 2004 to work on different aspects of cancer biology including tumor-specific protein and microRNA as biomarkers. Dr. Agarwal moved to Georgetown University in 2014 as an Associate Professor. Her lab is currently focused on developing conditionally reprogrammed in-vitro and in-vivo zebrafish metastasis models for several tumor types including rare tumors to study tumorigenesis and metastasis.