Adapting and Serving During The Pandemic

Sudha Krishnamurthy, B.D.S., Ph.D., is the director of the Office of Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Affairs at Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco. In this role, she advises on career and professional development, career path education, training, and programs and is involved with the academic affairs of postdoctoral scholars and graduate students. She advocates for policies related to postdocs with leadership and works closely with the NPA. New initiatives that she is involved with include longitudinal career tracking of Gladstone postdoctoral scholars, the development of a new postdoctoral curricula with experiential training and overseeing our flagship diversity internship program and other student outreach initiatives’. She is a clinician scientist with a dental degree and a doctoral degree in cancer stem cell biology from the University of Michigan and a postdoctoral training from UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. She also has an academic appointment at the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry as an adjunct assistant professor. She has also served on the NPA’s leadership team as an International Officer and worked on improving the integration of the international postdoctoral population into the scientific community.