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Alok Joglekar

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Immunology

Alok completed his M.Sc. in Biotechnology from the Institute for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, University of Pune in 2008. He then moved to sunny California for his Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles, where he worked on gene therapy using hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in Dr. Donald B. Kohn's lab. After completing his Ph.D. in 2013, he moved across town to California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for a postdoc in Dr. David Baltimore's lab. At Caltech, he developed SABRs, which served as a foundation for the lab. After a cross-country drive, the Joglekar Lab at the University of Pittsburgh was officially born in August 2019. Click here for more information on his research.