Ritu Aneja Ph.D

Dr. Ritu Aneja is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1997 from the University of Delhi in India. Later, she did her postdoctoral studies at Yale and Emory before joining as a tenure-track faculty at Georgia State in 2008. Her laboratory is actively engaged in the identification and preclinical development of novel centrosome-based “druggable” targets with an overall goal to contribute "kinder and gentler” chemotherapeutic modalities that have superior pharmacological profiles to the clinic. Another major thrust of her laboratory is the exploration of Mother Nature’s chest of medicine by evaluating the efficacy of various plant-based foods, which are an abundant source of cancer chemopreventive dietary phytochemicals for the therapy and management of prostate and breast cancers. Her research projects are indeed a promising step forward in the application of cell biology to human disease since they have strong clinical and translational relevance.