Sushila Maharjan, PhD

Co-Founder

Dr. Sushila Maharjan received her PhD in Biochemistry from the Department of Life Science and Biochemical Engineering at Sun Moon University, Korea. The central theme of her dissertation was genetic and metabolic engineering of biosynthetic pathways of antibiotics/anticancer drugs. She received her Master’s degree in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Dr. Maharjan is currently a research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School, USA. Her present research is focused on developing ‘organ-on-a-chip’ and 3D bioprinting systems to mimic human tissues in vitro. Before joining Harvard Medical School, she was a postdoc fellow at the Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers and Tissue Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. 

She has contributed over 40 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and 2 book chapters. Dr. Maharjan’s exemplary achievements in research have been recognized by prestigious “Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists, 2016” and “Best Poster Award, Korean Society of Glycobiology 2011”. She has also received several fellowships and research grants including “American Fund for Alternatives to Animal Research fellowship 2016-2018”, “Brain Korea 21 PLUS fellowship 2015”, TWAS Research Grants in Basic Sciences 2013” and Korean Research Fund Scholarship 2007- 2010″. Dr. Maharjan is a member of the ‘Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)’ and TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) Young Affiliate.

  • Scientific Advisor, Public bioscience learning center
  • Research Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA (2016-present)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea (2015-2016)
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