Arpit Panda

Arpit Panda is a systems immunologist, data scientist and a physician-scientist in-training. In a previous life, Arpit developed a range of software development skills while working as a full-stack engineer and serving on the founding team at a Southern California amateur sports streaming startup. After becoming excited by the crucial and complex problems that remain unsolved in health and medicine, he switched fields and began studying the mechanisms of response and resistance to immunotherapy in Nick Haining's lab at Harvard. He was involved in validating Adar1 as a potential immunotherapy target and continues studying the role of RNA modifiers in tumor immunology. Before Related Sciences, Arpit helped establish the bioinformatics team and led early preclinical bioinformatic drug discovery efforts for neuromuscular diseases at 4:49 NewCo, a 5 AM Ventures company. Arpit obtained his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology, and his Masters in Immunology from Harvard . He's currently an MD PhD candidate at the University of Chicago.