Humsa Venkatesh,PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Associate Scientist, Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital 

Cancer Cell Biology Program Member

Neuro-Oncology Program Member

Humsa received her undergraduate degree in Chemical Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD in Cancer Biology from Stanford University.

 After completing her postdoctoral work, she joined the Stanford faculty in 2019 and is now starting her Cancer Neuroscience research program as Assistant Professor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She has been recognized by the MIT Technology Review as a Pioneer Under 35 ‘TR35’ (2018), by Genetic Engineering News as a ‘Top 10 innovator to  watch under 40’ (2019), and won the Science & SciLife Prize for Young Scientists (2019). 

email: hvenkatesh@bwh.harvard.edu